196 Mr. J. G. Desborough's Observations on the Honey Bee. 



carefully avoided : the history of the experiment has been invari- 

 ably given before any conclusion is drawn from it, thus account- 

 ing for the somewhat egotistical style in which both papers might 

 otherwise appear; still the original Essay and this present paper 

 are in the end, using the words of an eminent member of the 

 Entomological Society, only what they profess to be — " direct ob- 

 servations of fact rather than speculative theories of which there 

 have been too many among Apiarians." 



'I'ABLE SHOWING THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF BeES PRODUCED IN 



THE Observatory Hive during the Years 1852, 1853 and 

 1854. 



