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and that in a manner truly remarkable. As 
the bees were making a comb, Iluber placed in 
front of it a slip of glass, and immediately they 
seemed aware of the difficulty of fastening it to 
so slippery a surface. Instead, however, of con- 
tinuing the comb in a straight line, they so bent 
it as to extend beyond the slip of glass, and fixed 
it at length to a part of the wood-work of the 
hive not covered by the glass. They made, too, 
the cells on the convex side of the bent part of 
the comb much larger, and those on the concave 
side much smaller than usual. Nor was this 
all ; for as the bottoms of the small and large 
cells were as usual common to both, the small 
ones were considerably wider at the bottom than 
at the top, and it was the reverse in the large 
ones. 
Such achievements as these can not but ex- 
cite alike our admiration and wonder. Truly 
has it been said that insects “ have been found 
capable of exciting enthusiastic energy, incom- 
parable patience, and fervent piety.” So earnest 
did a celebrated Dutch naturalist become in his 
studies on the habits and structure of the bee 
