made.hy mmm of ths Mirror-Hlm. 1.B5 
30th. The prisoner queen on the same spot $ the other at 
large. 
; Afternoon. The eaptive removed to the distance of twelve 
inches from her former station, but stUl vigorously confined ; 
dispersed the cluster, /and ; set her at liberty ; but, alas I -her li- 
berty was of short date ; she ran about six inches, hotly pursued 
by her jailors, and was again seized and surrounded as before. 
During her confinement, she emits almost unceasing ories^ resem^ 
bling the ^^ep, peep^ emitted by a queen previously to her leading 
off a second swarm, but wanting its regularity. The reigning 
queen does not seem to notice; that she has a rival ; shews none 
of those symptoms of rage and jealousy which Huber speaks ofj 
but walks about very composedly, and shews no desire to break 
through the inclosurej to attack her rival. I observe, however, 
she is not laying eggs ; probably her instinct is affected by. the 
convulsed state of her empire. 
,'31st. O' o’elock A. M. The captive queen in the same si- 
•tuation, hemmed in by her cruel persecutors; opened the hive 
again, and dispersed >the cluster of jailors, but in vain ; the poor 
prisoner made a strong and desperate effort to escape, but had 
not fled two inches^ when she was again arrested, and every 
limb held hard and fast. Resolve to remove her in the after- 
noon ; the reigning queen has begun to lay eggs. 
Afternoon. The captive queen is -dead. On surveying ?the 
state of matters this afternoon, I saw her still imprisoned; open- 
ed the hive, with the intention of taking her away ; dispersed 
the crowd, which almost totally concealed her, and found her 
quite dead, — a victim to my own curiosity, in the first instance, 
and to the jealousy of a prudent people, who seemed to know 
that a divided empire would not conduce to the public interest. 
It appears from this experiment, that in -some instances,* at 
least, the bees themselves, contrary to the opinion of Huber, 
take upon them the task of dispatching a supernumerary queen; 
not, indeed by their stings, for I never saw one made use of on 
the occasion, but by suffocation or hunger. On the closest exa- 
mination, I could not discern the slightest inclination on the 
part of either queen to decide the matter by single combat. 
They seemed^ in fact, to be totally unconscious of each .other’s 
presence, for the reigning queen walked past the crowd which 
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