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found growing in the affected tissues. Bees often 
exhibit the same peculiarity; e.g., at C, Fig. 123, 
we have a blood-stain from one of a number of bees 
sent by a correspondent,* in which a beaded (spore- 
bearing), large bacillus, is found growing side by side 
with a very small one. The large bacillus collects 
in dense plates (zooglea form), of many thousands, 
in actual lateral contact. Of the significance of this 
bacillus nothing is at present known, except that it 
appeared to be the occasion of a most destructive 
attack. Only two distinct instances of the occur- 
rence of this bacillus have come under my knowledge* 
The flagella of a bacillus found in a queen at Eden- 
thorpe are peculiarly distinct ; and an interesting 
example, picked out by my keen-eyed friend, Mr. 
E. M. Nelson, when looking over my collection, is seen 
at B, Fig. 123; here the flagella from two pairs of 
bacilli have caught, and are drawing each other tight. 
In a large apiary, a queen of very unusual size, 
but with relatively small legs, was found to be too 
weak to continue on the comb, and was literally 
scarcely more than a bag of micrococci, the whole body 
being completely broken down. Upon touching her 
side with the point of the forceps, with the idea of 
commencing a dissection, a thin, milky fluid escaped 
in astonishing quantity. A trace of this, placed on a 
glass slip, appeared as at D, Fig. 123. No similar 
instance has come under my knowledge. A remark- 
able, and also, to me, unique, case is illustrated at E, 
* Names, of course, could not be given without permission; but I 
have them attached to my collection for future reference. 
