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copulation was necessary, but that some gaseous emanations 

 from, the body of the drone produced fecundation by pene- 

 trating the body of the queen. About a hundred years later 

 great advances were made in the knowledge of the physiology 

 of the bee. It is said that Jansha, apiarist to the Empress 

 Maria Theresa of Austria, discovered the fact that young 

 queens have to leave the hive to meet the drones ; but it is to 

 the labours of Huber in 1787 and following years, and corn- 



Fig. 18,— OVAKIES OF ttTTEEN. 



municated in his letters addressed to Bonnet in the years 1789 

 to 1791, that we owe the first knowledge of the following main 

 facts: — 1. That the queen bee is truly oviparous; that what 

 she deposits is a true egg, which takes three days to produce 

 a living maggot or larva — (even the great Bonnet was inclined 

 up to that time to believe that a minute worm, and not an egg, 

 was produced by the queen). 2. That the queen must be 

 impregnated by the drone in order to become fertile. 3. That 



