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them were not developed ; their being fed and 

 treated in a particular manner, in their infancy 

 or worm state, being necessary, in his opinion, 

 to effect that development. Subsequent experi- 

 ments conducted under the auspices of Huber, 

 have shown, however, that the organs are not en- 

 tirely obliterated. 



Huber has been regarded as a man of a very 

 vivid imagination; and as his eye-sight was defec- 

 tive, he was obliged to rely very much upon the 

 reports of Francis Burnens, his assistant ; on both 

 which accounts other apiarian writers have thrown 

 some distrust upon his statements. Huish may 

 be reckoned among the number ; he has also made 

 some observations upon Schirach's theory, and 

 treated it with much petulance and ridicule. In 

 answer to him and all other cavillers, I shall detail 

 an experiment made by Mr. Dunbar, in his mirror 

 hive. In July, when the hive had become filled 

 with comb and bees, and well stored with honey ; 

 and when the queen was very fertile, laying a 

 hundred eggs a-day, Mr. D. opened the hive and 

 took her majesty away. The bees laboured for 

 eighteen hours before they appeared to miss her ; 

 but no sooner was the loss discovered than all was 

 agitation and tumult ; and they rushed in crowds 

 to the door, as if swarming. On the following 

 morning he observed that they had founded five 

 queen cells, in the usual w r ay under such cir- 



