44 BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 



insects. The Anaphis, by example, possesses, like the 

 bee, its six legs, with nine joints each, its four wings, 

 and twelve jointed antennae, each supplied with its 

 proper muscles and nerves, and almost throughout 

 its structure part for part with its larger relative, and 

 yet its entire weight is less than xooooth of a grain. 

 What of its egg, carrying within its shell all the 

 directive essentials for evolving these pigmy marvels ? 

 The grandeur of the minute will as successfully hush 

 to silence the thoughtful man as the grandeur of 

 the vast. 



