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have occasion to recur again to the observations of 
Pastor Miller, as well as to those of Mr. Newport,* 
who had a similar opportunity of watchmg the 
progress of an infant colony of hornets. His obser- 
vations, too, were cut short in the same way by the 
untimely death of the queen. 
* On the Habits and on the Structure of the Nests of Gregarious 
Hymenoptera. ‘Trans. Entomolog. Society of London,’ Vol. UI, 
p. 183. 1841—43. 
