New observations on the natural history of bees

ANALYTICAL INDEX.

Description of a hive invented by the author	page4
Swammerdam's opinion on the fecundation of bees	8
Sentiments of M. de Reaumur	10
Mr Debraw's opinion	11
Hattorf's opinion	19
Difficulty of discovering the mode of impregnation	22
Experiments on the subject	23
Suggestions by M. Bonnet	34
The queen is impregnated by copulation, which never takes place within the hive	41
Experiments on artificial fecundation have not succeeded	42
The male loses the sexual organs in copulation	43
Regarded impregnation affects the ovaries of the queen	45
She then lays no eggs but those producing males	47
One copulation impregnates all the eggs the queen will lay in two years	54
Fecundity of a queen	63
Common bees do not transport the queen's eggs	66
They sometimes eat them	69
Eggs producing males are sometimes laid in royal cells	71
Common worms may be converted into queens	77
Operations of the bees when this is done	78
Fertile workers sometimes exist	89
They lay none but the eggs of males	96
All common bees are originally females	98
Receiving the royal food while larvÆ, expands their ovaries	105
Mutual enmity of queens	110
The common bees seem to promote their combats	117
A guard is constantly at the entrance of the hive	123
What ensues when bees lose their queen	126
Effects of introducing a stranger queen	128
Massacre of the males	132
It never ensues in hives deprived of queens	135
A plurality of queens is never tolerated	142
The queen bee is oviparous	149
Bees seem occasionally to repose	150
Interval between production of the egg and the perfect state of bees	151
Mode of spinning the coccoon	153
That of the queen is open at one end	154
The size of the bees is not affected by that of the cells	167
The old queen always conducts the first swarm	173
But never before depositing eggs in the royal cells	177
Singular effect of a sound emitted by perfect queens	189
The instinct of bees is affected during the period of swarming	Alex. Smellie, Printer. Transcriber's notes The spelling in the original is sometimes idiosyncratic. It has not been changed, but a few obvious errors have been corrected. The corrections are listed below and marked with a mouse-hover in the text. Inconsistent spellings include: Lusace/LusaÇe, centre/center, choose/chuse, organisation/organization, recognise/recognize Unusual spellings (which have not been changed) include: centinels, coccoon, diaphraghm, encreased, encreasing, groupes, harrassed, inaccessible, incontestible, indispensible, moveable, perceptible, susceptible, uncontrouled, unintelligible Letter I "secret distinctive characterestics" changed to "secret distinctive characteristics" The "fig. 4" referred to in the second footnote can not be found. Letter II "the copulalation of queens" changed to "the copulation of queens" Letter IV "The worms had spun their silk coccons" changed to "The worms had spun their silk coccoons" Letter V "characteristics of commo nbees" changed to "characteristics of common bees" Letter VI "The result of this rencounter" changed to "The result of this encounter" "genius such as your's" unchanged. "observing that the antennae" changed to "observing that the antennÆ" "combats and disastrou scenes" changed to "combats and disastrous scenes" "M. de Reamur speaks of these executions" changed to "M. de Reaumur speaks of these executions" Letter IX "Only the few bees that not participated" changed to "Only the few bees that had not participated" Letter XI "these tumultous motions" changed to "these tumultuous motions" Letter XII "one antennÆ" unchanged. "reside in them," changed to "reside in them." Appendix "the cirumference is edged" changed to "the circumference is edged" "he could have proportioned the tortous canal" changed to "he could have proportioned the tortuous canal" "pressed between the laminae" changed to "pressed between the laminÆ" < Clyx.com

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