12 PHYSIOLOGY OF THE HONEY-BEE. 



gans. When I couple this development with the gp-eater size 

 of the eye of the drone, and ask what is his function, why 

 needs he such a magnificent equipment? and remember that he 

 has not to scent the nectar from afar, nor spy out the coy 

 blossoms as they peep between the leaves, I feel forced to the 

 conclusion that the pursuit of the queen renders them neces- 

 sary." (Cheshire.) 



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Fig. 5. 



LONGITUDINAL SECTION THROUGH POETION OP FLAGELLUM OF ANTENNA 

 OF WOHKEE. 



(Magnified 300 times. From Cliesliire.) 



f, feeling hair ; iS, smelling organ : lio, hollow ; c, conoid or cone- 

 shaped hair ; hi, hypodermal or under-skin layer ; n,n, nerves in bun- 

 dles ; ar, articulation ; c'j conoid hair, magnified 800 times. 



27. While giving these short quotations and beautiful en- 

 gravings from Cheshire's anatomy of the bee, we earnestly 

 advise the scientific bee-student to procure and read his work. 

 Mr. Cheshire shows us those minute organs so beautifully and 

 extensively magnified, that in reading his book we feel as 

 though we were transported by some Genius inside of the body 

 of a giant insect, every detail of whose organism was laid 

 open before us. However wonderful the statement made 

 above, of the existence of nearly 20,000 organs in such a small 

 thing as the antenna of a bee, this fact will not be disputed. 

 Those of our bee-friends, who have had the good luck to meet 

 tlie editor of the British Bee-Journal, Mr. Cowan, during his 

 trip to America, in 1887, will long remember the wonderful 

 microscopical studies, and the microscope which he brought 



