the queen-bee 
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the author of a recent publication on 
the history of bees. 
His argument* however* we consider 
hut very weak. With more of pled* 
santerie than solid reasoning, he ob¬ 
serves,—“Mr Huber was aware of 
the dilemma into which he would be 
thrown by making the queen-bee and 
drone to copulate in the hive, and he 
therefore gives her a roving commis¬ 
sion to search the woods for her par¬ 
amour .’ 5 Almost^tlie only cogent rea¬ 
son Huish assigns why the queen could 
not be “fructified a la huher is, that 
were she in the habit of leaving the 
hive for the purpose of copulation with 
the drones, she would have to eo* 
