122 General Notes. [ February, 
sarily high cost of the high-angle lenses has materially retarded the 
growing popularity and usefulness of the microscope itself. 
REMARKABLE ForaGe ror Bees. — Rev. J. L. Zabriskie, whose 
interesting papers on bee-bread, in the Bee Keepers’ Magazine, have 
given readers unfamiliar with the sciences concerned a reliable under- 
standing of the structure of pollen, and the curious development, upon 
the hind legs of the bees, of the pollen brushes and pollen baskets with 
which the pollen is gathered, loaded up, and carried to the hives, observed, 
during the last summer, bees coming to his hives loaded with an unusually 
large quantity of a pollen-like powder having a bright vermilion color, 
not before noticed. The pollen baskets were filled to overflowing with 
this novel food, which the bees were carrying to their hives and storing 
away in the usual manner. Microscopically examined the grains were 
unlike any known pollen, but corresponded exactly in their peculiar color, | 
size, shape, granular contents, and character and delicate markings of 
the epispore, with the raspberry rust, which was abundant at the time on 
leaves in the garden and adjoining fields; this rust being a leaf fungus 
( Uredo luminata) whose delicate mycelial cells force themselves among 
and draw nourishment from the cells which form the tissue of the leaf, 
and which at the time of fruiting rupture the skin in little spots on the 
under surface of the leaf, and develop crowded clusters of bright red 
spores surrounded by the upturned edge of the ruptured leaf skin, which 
looks, when magnified, not unlike a little dish filled with miniature 
strawberries. The bees were not seen to gather spores from these clus- 
ters, but the grains carried to the hives were positively identified by com- 
parison with fresh specimens from the leaves. This presumably un- 
wholesome food seemed to have no unfavorable effect on the health of 
the infant families of bees. Whether some such strange choice of food 
is related to the occasional occurrence of poisonous honey, may be sug- 
gested. 
Cryerocamic Parasites.— The report of M. Maxime Cornu, in 
the Bulletin Entomologique, on a larva of Chelonia Hebe which had been- 
killed by a parasitic fungus, refers the fungus to the genus Entomoph- 
thora, and possibly to the species which preys upon flies in the autumn. 
The presence of this parasite in a larva he thinks has not been previously 
recorded. M. Cornu concludes that fungi cannot perforate healthy ani- 
mal tissues, but must enter through some wound or other opening, since 
he has observed an Aphis of the elder infested even to the antenna with 
an abundance of corpuscles of a species of Entomophthora, while the fifty- 
two young in different stages of development contained within the af 
fected insect were all perfectly free and healthy. 
- Broop GrosuLes ın Treo Fever. — M. Cornil has found, in 
the blood of the spleen of patients who have died in the third week of 
typhoid fever, large numbers of white globules, inclosing red globules to 
the number of five, six, or even more in a single cell. Other cells in- 
