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wide ones the difficulty explained in Vol I. tells 
much against the completion of the comb to the 
wood, the latter, in consequence, standing so far 
out in front of the honey as to materially reduce 
the beauty of the appearance of the section, by 
throwing a shadow, and giving an impression of 
incompleteness. Mr. D. A. Jones, at his visit to 
this country, expressed to the Author, more than once, 
the gratification he derived from noting that Vol. I. 
had, theoretically, deduced what he, in actual practice, 
had found to be true, but for which he had been 
quite unable to give an explanation. 
Fig. 109.— Sections in Frame (Scale, i). 
Jr, fr, Frame ; in, in. Incepts ; bs. Bee-space ; sp. Separator ; si. Slot in 
Separator for Bee Passage. 
The sections under discussion can be used with 
what has been called the ‘side’’ downwards, when they 
can be arranged in crates, as at Fig. no; and as the 
lug (/, Fig. io8) gives half bee-space, they can be 
piled on each other ad lib. So standing they admit 
of a modification which greatly enhances the beauty 
of the whole thing. The bottom rail, in the sections 
now referred to, is formed of a single slip of glass, 
carried by a square groove instead of a dovetail, 
