Dec. 15. 1911 



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Kio. 1. — Ifoney-sac. H; stomach-mouth, \', and 

 chyle-sti)mach, S, of the bee In the natural posi- 

 tion. I'liotogrraphed Irom a microscopical prepa- 

 ration, ten times enlarged. 



i n bee science have got on a new track which 

 in time, and by perseverance, will lead them 

 to quite dilTerent results than most previous 

 students of the bee arrived at. 



What these new bee scientists distinguish 

 seems to be their extreme seriousness and 

 their sober self-limitation. And not only in 

 this respect are the modern investigators of 

 America and Europe in complete accord, 

 but in their aim too; and in their results so 

 far they are coming to similar conclusions. 



Fig. 3.— Tlie position of the honey-sac, H, and the chyle-stomach, S, in the 

 abdomen of the bee. 



That is a hap- 

 py omen for 

 the future of 

 bee science. 



Right here 

 I want to 

 draw the at- 

 tention of 

 American 

 bee-keepers to 

 the work car- 

 ried on at the 

 Royal Apicul- 

 tural I n s t i - 

 tute at Erlan- 

 g e n , Germa- 

 ny. The head 

 of this insti- 

 tute is Mr. 

 Enoch Zan- 

 der, Dr. Phil., 

 Professor o f 

 Zoology, who 

 is at present 

 publishing 

 the results of 

 his 15 years' 

 study in his 

 "Handbookof 

 Bee Science." 

 The third 

 part, on the 

 anatomy of 

 the bee, means 

 a new depar- 

 ture in this 

 line. A truly 



scientific endeavor, and a readiness at all 

 times rather to prefer to confess to being 

 an ignoramus than to enter into bottomless 

 theoretical specula- 

 tion — that is the 

 spirit the whole work 

 breathes. Another 

 feature that lifts this 

 work above similar 

 previous publications 

 is that, though the 

 honey-bee is the ob- 

 ject of the study, the 

 relations of the hon- 

 ey-bee are never lost 

 sight of. This study 

 of comparison of anal- 

 ogous parts of the 

 bee with those of its 

 relations opens an in- 

 teresting and wide 

 aspect, and will prove 

 more fruitful than the 

 isolated siieculation 

 upon the bee as a 

 singular wonder in- 

 stead of a part of a 

 wonderful creation — 

 a practice hitherto so 

 much indulged in, 



SOME BEE MODELS. 



Through the kind- 

 ness of Prof. Zander 



Fig. 2.^The connection of the 

 honey-sac and chyle-stomach. 

 Sectional view of a model at 

 I'Jrlangen University, Germany. 



