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14 IMPREGNATION OF 
ne rally destitute of males, yet, not¬ 
withstanding their absense, the queen 
then lays fertile eggs. Thus, the pro* 
lific fluid cannot be required to im¬ 
pregnate them, unless we shall sup¬ 
pose it necessary at a certain time ot. 
the year, while at every other sea¬ 
son it is useless, 
M. Huber, a celebrated Swiss 
naturalist, who spent a great part of 
his life in the study of bees, and who 
—by the use of very thin glass hives , 
in which the bees had room to oon« 
\ 
struct only one single large comb— 
succeeded in making a great many 
new discoveries in the economy of these 
wonderful inseots«—anxious to di^co- 
