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FIFTH CHAPTER. 



ON THE PRESUMED POWER OF THE COMMON BEE TO 

 GENERATE A QUEEN. 



THE QUEEN BEE LAYS EVERY EGG IN THE HIVE — EVERY HIVE CONTAINS 

 FOUR KINDS OP CELLS — aUESTION AS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ftUEEN 



RESPECTING THE NATURE OF THE EGG WHICH SHE IS ABOUT TO LAY 



ADMITTED BY HUBER THAT THE QUEEN LAYS THREE KINDS OF EGGS — THE 

 COMMON BEES ENDOWED WITH THE POWER. OF ALTERING THE NATURE 



OF THE EGG THE QUEEN LAYS ONLY TWO KINDS OF EGGS ACCORDING TO 



DUNBAR — CHARACTERISTIC SHAPE OF THE DIFFERENT EGGS — POSITION 

 OF THE EGGS IN THE OVARIUM OF THE QUEEN- — THE QUEEN LAYS THE 

 EGGS CONSECUTIVELY IN THE DRONE AND COMMON CELLS — OPINION OF 

 REAUMUR — QUOTATION FROM DUCHET RELATIVE TO THE QUEEN LAY'ING 

 HER EGGS — THE QUEEN NOT MISTAKEN IN THE NATURE OF THE EGG SHE 

 IS ABOUT TO LAY ADMITTED BY HUBER — DIFFERENCE OF OPINION OF 

 SCHIRACH AND HUBER — THE POWER OF THE COMMON BEE TO GENERATE 

 A QUEEN DISPROVED BY BONNER — A QUEEN BEE CANNOT BE MADE AC- 

 CORDING TO HUBER WITHOUT ROYAL JELLY — QUEEN EGGS NOT LAID IN 

 ROYAL CELLS — THE QUEEN CELLS MADE BY THE BEES AFTER THE ROYAL 

 EGG IS LAID— ERRONEOUS STATEMENT OF HUBER RELATIVE TO THE CON- 

 STRUCTION OF THE ROYAL CELLS — EXTRAORDINARY ACT OF THE BEES AS 

 NARRATED BY HUBER — CONSTRUCTION OF A GLASS QUEEN CELL BY 

 HUBER. — THE ROYAL CELLS ACCORDING TO SCHIRACH ENJOY A HIGHER 

 TEMPERATURE THAN THOSE OF THE COMMON BEES — PARTICULAR ME- 

 THOD OF GENERATING A QUEEN ACCORDING TO SOME APIARIANS — SYSTEM 

 ■OF WILDMAN — QUESTION RELATIVE TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ROYAL 

 CELLS — EXPERIMENT TO DETERMINE THE EXISTENCE OF A ROYAL CELL 

 — THE POWER OF THE COMMON BEE TO GENERATE A QUEEN DENIED BY 

 L'ABBE DELLA R.OCCA — HIS SYSTEM RELATIVE TO THE FORMATION OF A 

 ■QUEEN — THE CHARACTER OF THE EMBRYO ACCORDING TO DUNBAR DE- 

 PENDS UPON THE ELONGATION AND EXPANSION OF THE CELL — INVESTI- 

 GATION OF THAT THEORY — MR. DUNBAR AN ADVOCATE FOR THE AD- 

 MINISTRATION OF ROYAL JELLY — VARIETY OF OPINIONS OF DIFFERENT 

 APIARIANS ON THAT SUBJECT — RENNIe's SERVILE SUBMISSION TO THE 



AUTHORITY OF HUBER THE CREATION OF THE JELLY MAKERS BY 



HUBER — CONDUCT OF MR. RENNIE EXAMINED — CANDID CONFESSION OF 

 MR. DUNBAR — TWO SY'STEMS APPERTAINING TO THE PROPAGATION OJ? 

 THE BEE — HYPOTHESIS OF MR. DUNBAR — EXAMINATION THEREOF — CON- 

 TRARIETY OF OPINION OF HUBER AND DUNBAR RELATIVE TO THE CHA- 

 RACTER OF THE EGGS — DIFFERENCE OF CHARACTER ATTACHED TO THE 

 BEES BY HUBER — THEIR RESPECTIVE KINDS OF LABOUR — MYSTERIOUS 

 DISAPPEARANCE OF THE EGGS FROM THE CELLS — THE EGGS ACCORDING 



TO HUBER EATEN BY THE BEES — THE EGGS REMOVED BY THE BEES 



CONFIRMED BY TWO EXPERIMENTS THE EGGS DROPPED BY THE QUEEN 



LODGED BY THE BEES IN A CELL— THE SUPERFLUOUS EGGS REMOVED BY 

 THE BEES — ATTENTION PAID EY THE BEES TO THE LABVS OF ANOTHER 

 HIVE DISPROVED AS A GENERAL PRINCIPLE — ARGUMENTS OF KIRBY AND 

 SPENCE — SINGULAR HYPOTHESIS OF KIRBY — EFFECT OF DIET ON MAN, 

 SUPPOSED TO HAVE THE SAME ON BEES — THE NATURE OP A MAN ACCORD- 

 ING TO KIRBY ALTERED BY A TIGHTER OR LOOSER DRESS, SIMILARLY 

 CONSTITUTED WITH THE BEES — CHANGE IN THE SEXUAL CHARACTER OF 

 THE BEE OCCASIONED BY ROYAL JELLY — KIRBY's COMPARISON OF AN 

 INFANT IN SWADDLING CLOTHES AND A BEE — THE CHANGE IN THE SEX 

 OF THE BEE ACCOUNTED FOR BY KIRBY — ANALOGY BETWEEN A COW 

 HAVING TWINS AND A BEE — CONTRADICTIONS OF KIRBY — THE ADMINIS- 

 TRATION OF THE ROYAL JELLY IMPROVED UPON BY A FRENCH ANONY- 

 MOUS WRITER (Note) — KIRBY ON THE SECONDARY CHARACTER OF MAN 

 AND WOMAN — EXAMINATION' OF THE SYSTEM — FINAL REMARKS. 



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