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insect, in the honey season, are carried on 
during the night as well as the day, the co- 
-ronet eyes may, as Reaumer conjectures, 
serve to it the purpose of a microscope. As 
to the general power of vision in the Bee, its 
organs appear better adapted to distant ob- 
jects, than to such as are close at hand. 
When returning loaded from the fields, it 
flles with unerring certainty, and distin- 
guishes at once its own domicil, in the midst 
of a crowded apiary. Yet every person, 
who has at all made this insect the subject 
of observation, must have seen it often at a 
loss, in returning to its hive, to find the en- 
trances, especially if its habitation has been 
shifted, ever so little, from its former station; 
nay, if, without moving the hive, the en- 
trance has been turned around a single inch, 
from its former position, the Bee flies, with 
unerring precision to that point on the 
alighting board where the door formerly 
stood; and, frequently, after many fruitless 
attempts to find the entrance, it is forced to 
rise again into the air, with a view, I may 
