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And these ten Ts and six Ds in turn will always breed true. This 

 constituted Mendel's discovery. 



Recosfnizine: that this is a law as firmlv established as is the 

 law of the attraction of gravitation, and that according to the best 

 authorities it applies to the brute creation as w^ell as plants, and to 

 the human in some respects, as in the color of the eyes, I wondered 

 if it would not apply as well to the bees, or to the Hymenoptera 

 which showed parthenogenesis, and I drew the following diagram: 



TtaHan 



Bees 



Black 



Ist generation 



Hy"brid ^ueen 

 Pure Italian Drones. 

 Hybrid Queen to Pure Italian Drone. 



2nd generation, -J Blood I. 



f Italian i^tieen to Pure Italian Drone. 



3rd generation, 14/ie Blood Italian. 



14/16 Blood Italian Queen to Pure Italian Drone 



4th generation. Black blood practically extinguished. 



To those, now, who understand parthenogenesis, and everv 

 bee-keeper should, it will be plain that crossing a hybrid drone to 

 a hybrid queen the mongrel strain can be kept up indefinitely, or 

 if the Black queen be used instead of the Italian, the Black will 

 in four generations extinguish the Italian, so that no matter in what 

 light we look at it Mendelism will not apply to the parthenegenetic 

 insects, according to all information now available. There may be 

 something discovered, but I am now more firmly convinced than 

 ever that all progress in the development of the bee family ceased 

 untold ages ago. As Prof. Cockrill says, "The bee is the last word 

 in development."' We do not know the origin of the honey-bee. 

 It may have been the Caucasian, as someone guesses, but it is just 



