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he cut away (with some difficulty) to enable the photograph to 
be taken. Mr. Strowlger saw a swarm of bees, early in June, 
over his farm, but they went up high in the air and disappeared. 
It is supposed that these are the same bees. The comb is 
BEES’ NEST FOUND AT MILE END, COLCHESTER. 
estimated to contain from 25 to golb. of honey.” The photograph 
is by Mr. J. E. Stutter, Errington Road, Colchester, and the 
block is kindly lent by Mr. C. E. Benham. 
Daphnia magna in Epping Forest. —At the meeting 
on 25th January 1913, Mr. Scourfield in exhibiting a living male 
Daphnia magna, said the specimen was noticed a week or two 
previously in a bottle containing water taken near Hunstanton 
in the summer, and in which females of the same species had 
lived continuously ever since. The males of the Cladocera 
