TABLE OF CONTENTS 
BY PARAGRAPHS. 
Cuarrer I—Physiology of the Honey-Bee 
1. GenzraL Remarns. 2. The Honey-bee. 8. The Hive, 4. The three 
Kinds of inhabitants. 
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS. —&. The skeleton. 6. The frame of their 
bodies 7%. Hairs. 8. The three sections of the body. 9. Eyes. 
10, Their structure. 11. Comparison. 12. Use of the small eyes. 
13. Why so many facets? 14. Help in finding their way back. 15, 
16. Colors as guides. 17,18. Color not their only guide. 19. The 
antennz. 20. Our gratitude to Huber and his servant Burnens. 21. His 
wife. 22. His ability. 23. His experiments on the antennzw. 24. Can 
bees perceive sounds? 25. Where is their hearing located? 26. Where 
are their smelling organs located? 27. The wonders of the microscope. 
28. Number of atoms in a pinhead. 29. Smelling organs. 30. Mar- 
velous power of smell. 31. Smelling blossoms a mile away. 32, 33, 
Remembrance. 34. Depriving bees of their antennz. 35. Cannot live 
without antennw. 36. Brain of bees. 37. Our reverence for Swammer- 
dam. 38. Themouth. 39. The glands. 40. Queen fed by the produc- 
of the upper pair. 4. The others are salivary. 42. Mandibles 43. 
Compared with those of hornets. 44. Other parts ofthe mouth. 45. Chin 
andtongue. 46. Labial palpi and maxilla. 47. The tongue is not a tube. 
48. Action of the tongue. 49. Its possibleimprovement. 50. The thor- 
ax. SL. Legs. 52. Claws and pulvilli. 53. How the pulvilli work. 
64. Uses of the hairs of the legs. 55. The notch of the first pair. 56. The 
pin of the second pair. 57. The pincers of the posterior pair. 58. The 
pollen combs. 59. Pollen baskets. 60. The wings. 61. Their power and 
speed. 62. Digesting apparatus. 63. Honey sac and stomach month. 
64. Is the larva fed by the glands? 65, 66. Comparison with mammals. 
67. Process of digestion. 68. Nervous system. 69. The heart. 70 The 
lungs or trachea. 71. Their connection with the flight. 72. Bees unable 
totake wing. 73. Their discharge in flight. 74. Girard on the trachea. 
75. Thehumming. 76. Language of bees. 77. Stahala on this subject. 
78. The sting. 79. Poisonsack. 80, 81. Shape of the sting and how it 
works. 82. Not easily withdrawn. $3. Very polished weapon. 84. Loss 
of the sting. $5. Can be withdrawn. 86. Bees can live withoutit. 87. 
The odor of the poison. 88. The sting can wound after removal. 89. 
When left inthe wound. 90. Thanks to the writers. 91. Conclusions of 
Packard. 92. Intelligence of some insects. 
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