PHTSIOLOGY AND BREEDING. 



41 



producing females from the other side. We find that the 

 ovaries are separated into two equal parts, (according to 

 Swammerdam, after whom Langstroth copies,) having no 

 connection whatever, except that the contents of each 

 branch is discharged through the common oviduct or pas- 

 sage. Over the outlets of the passages or oviducts open- 

 ing from each of these divisions into the main channel, or 

 common oviduct, the queen has full control, and fully 

 understands that eggs from the one division will produce 

 drones, and from the other, workers ; and the anomaly of 

 drone-laying queens arises from the imperfect development 

 of that part of the ovaries which produces eggs for 

 workers." 



Let us see what there is in support of the two theories. 



He believes that there is 

 enough seminal fluid to 

 cause the egg to generate, 

 incorporated with it in its 

 formation. Yet in another 

 place he admits that the 

 queen is provided with a 

 receptacle for the male ele- 

 ment, and doubts that any 

 eggs are ever hatched that 

 are not impregnated di- 

 rect, in the following lan- 

 guage. " That this is true, 

 permit me at present to 

 doubt ; its assumptions are 

 too extravagant, and so far 

 from harmonizing Avith 

 Tig. 7.-0VAKIES OF THE QUEEN. ^11 animated nature, with 

 which I am in any way conversant, etc." 



He should remember that we start with some facts not 

 in harmony with any thing " with which we are conver- 



