CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER X. 



PROPOLIS. 



PAGES 



Derivation of Word — Sources — Nature — Purposes — Quantity Col- 

 lected — Adaptation of Materials to Wants of Bees .... 76 — 79 



CHAPTER XI. 



PHYSIOLOGY OF THE BEE. 



Nervous System — The Head — Eyes — Compound and Simple — 

 Uses and Powers — Sir John Lubbock's Experiments — The 

 Antennae — Structure and Uses — Mouth — Detailed Descrip- 

 tion 80 — 100 



CHAPTER XII. 



HEARING, TASTE, AND SMELLING. 



Hearing — Sir John Lubbock's Experiments — Sounds uttered by 

 Queen — Effects produced by them- — Smell-Organs — Purposes 

 — Liking for, and Antipathy to, certain Effluvia — Discovery 

 by Bees of Nectar and Honey . . loi — 108 



CHAPTER XIII. 



THE THORAX. 



Detailed Description — Legs — Wings — ^how used in Flight- 

 Hooking together — Employed for Ventilating 109 — 114 



CHAPTER XIV. 



THE ABDOMEN. 



Respiratory Organs — Circulation of Nutritive Fluid — Digestion 

 and Nutrition — Secretion of Wax — Reproductive Organs — 

 Detailed description of Sting — Effects of Poison — Queen's 

 Sting . . . 115 — 128 



