The Progress of the Race 
to this unexpected, incomprehensible food, 
which, in their hereditary memory, must be 
inseparable from the calyx of flowers where 
their flight, for so many centuries past, has 
been sumptuously and voluptuously wel- 
comed. 
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It is little more than a hundred years ago 
that Huber’s researches gave the first serious 
impetus to our study of the bees, and re- 
vealed the elementary, important truths that 
allowed us to observe them with fruitful 
result. Barely fifty years have passed since 
the foundation of rational, practical apicul- 
ture was rendered possible by the movable 
combs and frames devised by Dzierzon 
and Langstroth, and since the hive has 
ceased to be the inviolable abode wherein 
all came to pass in a mystery from which 
death alone stripped the veil. And lastly, 
less than fifty years have elapsed since 
the improvements of the microscope, of the 
entomologist’s laboratory, revealed the pre- 
cise secret of the principal organs of the 
workers, of the mother, and the males. 
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