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directions. It furnishes a surprising evidence 
of the slow degrees by which scientific facts 
make their way, if not essential to general 
utility, when we consider that to this day, 
the knowledge of this singularity in the na- 
tural history of this insect, is confined almost 
exclusively to apiarians, and even rejected 
by some of them. It has however been con- 
firmed by so many experiments instituted by 
many different individuals, that no unpreju- 
diced mind can withhold its assent from its 
truth. In the case of the Bee, the egg of a 
worker placed in aroyal cell, only produces 
an insect which has its powers more fully 
developed in proportion to the ampler space 
which it occupies, but it acquires no new 
powers. | . 
The germ of the ovary existed originally 
in the common Bee as well as in the mother 
Bee, but the confined limits of its cell, and 
the want of the peculiar food provided for 
the royal race prevented its development. 
The proceedings of the Bees in order to sup- 
ply the loss of their queen, are extremely in- 
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