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ARTIFICIAL QUEEXS. 
at tlie same moment, of the largest size, and well 
formed in every respect. Nothing could he more 
conclusive than this experiment. It demonstrated that 
hees have the power of converting the worms of wor- 
kers into Queens, since they succeeded in procuring 
them by operating on worms not chosen by them- 
selves, but selected for them. 
In addition to this conclusive experiment, we shall 
take the liberty of detailing two of our own on the 
same subject, which were made nearly twenty 
years ago, and which we have repeated almost every 
year since with the same success. We give these 
experiments not from an}’ idea that those of Huber 
require confirmation, or that ours are of importance 
enough to supply any such supposed deficiency, but 
on the obvious principle that the more numerous the 
experiments, and the greater the diversity of experi- 
menters, the more irrefragably is the nlleged fact 
established, if the result be uniformly the same. In 
June 1 822, we instituted an experiment with a view 
of witnessing a combat between two queens, and the 
result as to that object will be afterwards noticed. 
It was only incidentally that we derived from it a 
confirmation of the fact in question, and we shall now 
state the particulars. Into a hive well peopled, but 
not possessing, as far as we could discern, any very 
young brood, we introduced a stranger-queen, with 
the expectation that the two rival potentates, each of 
whom, like the jealous Turk, can bear no rival near 
her throne, would decide by single combat which of 
them should retaiu the honours and privileges of 
