uld be extremely interesting to discover whether their males also
lose their sexual parts, in the same circumstances, and whether, as with
drones, enjoyment in their flight is the prelude of death.

FINIS.

FOOTNOTES:

{O} Memoires sur les Abeilles, p. 450.

{P} Such long and minute descriptions can be very imperfectly
translated; indeed they are unintelligible without microscopical
inspections of the parts themselves.--T.

ANALYTICAL INDEX.

Description of a hive invented by the author page 4
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 larvae, expands their ovaries 105
Mutual enmity of queens 110
The common bees seem to promote their combats 1