ans, whether bees enjoy the sense of hearing ; but 
their organs of sight appear to be very perfect. A 
bee, on its departure from the hive, makes several 
evolutions, and then rising in the air, flies in a 
straight line to the flowery field, and having made 
its collection, it again rises aloft, and returns in a 
perfectly straight line, with great velocity, and 
recognizes its own hive amid numerous others 
resembling it. The sense of smell enjoyed by 
bees, is supposed to answer their purpose in tra- 
versing the fields in search of flowers, even though 
several miles distant. Their sense of smell is 
supposed to be so acute as to scent a field of 
buckwheat at the distance of five miles. 
CONSTRUCTION OF COMBS AND CELLS. 
On examining the interior of a bee hive, the 
view presented to the beholder is of the most in- 
teresting character. The curious eye can never 
be weary of examining these curious work-shops, 
where thousands are employed in the various de- 
partments, for the common good. We are struck 
in a particular manner with the regularity and 
exactness observable in their works ; their maga- 
zines replenished with every necessary for the 
support of the society during winter; and we be- 
hold with wonder and pleasure the young brood 
in their cradles, and the tender care of their nurs- 
ing mothers towards them. The construction of 
these cells, or cradles, is executed with so much 
art, and the ground-work and form so skillfully 
contrived, that it must be viewed as an excellent 
specimen of geometry. The structure of these 
