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THE AMEBIC AN APICULTUBIST. 



of. worker, queen and drone we 

 find liim crediting tlie worker with 

 6,300 facets in each compound 

 eye, or 12,600 in all. The queen 

 having only necessity to go out 

 visiting two or three times in her 

 life was expected to have less fac- 

 ets, and examination proved it so ; 

 for she only showed 4,920 facets on 

 each side of head, or 9,840 in all. 



Mr. Lazy Bones, the drone, with 

 no nectar to seek actually showed 

 the immense number of 13,090 fa- 

 cets in each compound eye,oronl3^ 

 26,180 eyes in all. The answer to 

 the question ''Why should the vis- 

 nal apparatus of the drone be so 

 extraordinarily developed beyond 

 that of the worker, whose need of 

 the e3^e seems at first to be so 

 much more pressing than his ?" is 

 left by Mr, Cheshire to a later 

 period in his work. 



Mr. Cheshire writes "Can we 

 then leave these same organs with- 

 out being moved b^^ their wonder? 

 Our conception is unequal to 

 the task they give us, although our 

 knowledge of them is, at the best, 

 only superficial. I feel unable tQ 

 close this chapter as I would. 

 Swammerdam shall do it for me 

 for he says "I cannot refrain from 

 confessing, to the glory of the im- 

 mense, incomprehensible architect 

 that I have but imperfectly de- 

 scribed, and represented this small 

 organ ; for to rei)resent it to the 

 life in its full perfection far exceeds 

 the utmost eiforts of human 

 knowledge." 



I am very pleased to see by the 

 remarks of our friend S. Cornell, 

 of Canada that my efforts to ren- 

 der Foreign Notes acceptable to 

 the readers of the "Api" are ap- 

 preciated. 



1 note with interest his references 

 to the researches of Dr. Carpenter, 

 Milne Edwards, and Prof Pla- 

 teau and have already searched 

 two libraries in this city without 



finding an}^ of the works alluded to 

 in Dr. Carpenter's letter. 



Having occasion to-day to visit 

 the superintendent of our Zoologi- 

 cal Gardens I mentioned my diffi- 

 culty to him, and he has told me 

 where 1 am almost certain to find 

 the work ; but I regret to say I am 

 so busy just now that a subject so 

 large as "Insect Temperatures" de- 

 mands more time than I can give 

 to it, though I will endeavor to have 

 a look into it if at all possible and 

 give 3'our readers the benefit, 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



CANADIAN DEPARTAIENT. 

 By R. F. Holterman. 



Since the last issue of the "xA-pi," 

 the Ontario government have granted 

 the Ontario Beekeepers' Association 

 $i,ooo to assist in the prospective 

 display of honey at the colonial and 

 Indian Exhibition, The association 

 have also been promised incorpora- 

 tion and an annual grant of $500, 

 Apiarian supplies have already been 

 shipped and a very fine display ex- 

 pected. Among the exhibitors are E. 

 L. Goold & Co., Brantford, and D. 

 A. Jones & Co., Beeton. The dis- 

 play of honey, if the season will at all 

 permit, is expected to be not less than 

 100,000 and may exceed 200,000 lbs. 

 The honey is expected to leave Can- 

 ada the first week in August or ear- 

 Uer. 



Reports from a number of leading 

 apiarists tend to show that so far 

 bees have wintered well ; in fact, out of 

 fully 1,000 colonies heard from, the 

 percentage of loss is not so high as 

 one. 



True, the time for the heaviest loss 

 is yet to come, but tlie present indi- 

 cations are we shall reach the honey 

 season with but little loss. The past 

 season opened with comparatively 

 few surviving colonies, the season it- 

 self was rather unfiivorable to a plen- 



