560 Mr. John Lowe on the Honey Bee. 
drones, whether they had been produced by purely 
fecundated or by hybridized mothers. 
It is not without much diffidence that I have ventured 
to submit these views, opposed as they are to the 
opinions of men of high scientific attainments and 
aplarian experience, but when I am asked to believe in 
a theory whichis professedly based upon certain evidence, 
the examination and testing of which I find to be want- 
ing, I shall be excused for a little scepticism. The whole 
of Dzierzon’s theory seems to me to be bound up in 
one chain. The all-important link in that chain—that 
drone-eges are not affected by fecundation—is, accord- 
ing to my observations, broken. 
