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 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 | [208] |
| Queens are liberated from their cells according to their age | [214] |
| The bees probably judge of this by the sound emitted | [217] |
| Young queens conducting swarms are virgins | [221] |
| The conduct of bees to old queens is peculiar | [224] |
| Retarded impregnation affects the instinct of queens | [241] |
| Amputation of the antennæ produces singular effects | [245] |
| Advantages of the leaf hive | [253] |
| It renders the bees tractable | [256] |
| They may there be forced to work in wax | [264] |
| Uniform distance between the combs | [265] |
| Natural heat of bees | [269] |
| Distance to which they fly | [271] |
| Appendix | [273] |
| Anatomical observations on the sexual organs of bees | [276] |
| Experiments proving the copulation of the queen | [290] |
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]"