THE HONEY-BEE. 
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of a more stimulant quality, administered in a cell of 
larger dimensions, sliould give full development to 
organs wliicli, by the ordinary treatment, would have 
remained but partially expanded, we can readily 
comprehend ; hut that such extra supplies of food 
and space should effect an absolute changp in the 
anatomical structure and instinctive propensities, — 
should produce a more slender proboscis, deprive the 
transformed insect of the downy brushes at the joints 
of her limbs, and of the basket-shaped cavities in the 
posterior pair, for retaining the pellets of farina, — 
and, above all, should effect so great an alteration in 
her instincts, rendering them in numerous particulars 
entirely different from those of the worker class, for 
which she was originally destined, — these are cir- 
cumstances which, notwithstanding all out researches, 
arc still involved in mysterious obscurity, and furnish 
ample scope for future investigation. 
On the Architecture of Bees . — The peculiarities of 
instinct in the different orders of animals, if pursued 
through all its variations, would supply us with an 
inexhaustible fund of admiration and instruction ; 
and in none of the lower animals is this wonderful 
faculty more worthy of our notice and investigation 
than in the Bee. So much, however, has been al- 
ready written on this particular point, that the sub- 
ject is pretty nearly exhausted. We should perhaps 
find, notwithstanding, but little difficulty in treating 
our readers with an additional disquisition on the same 
subject, but as we do not pretend to be able to give 
a more satisfactory elucidation of the mystery of 
