Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 190
bject, says : — Since bees some-times make mistakes and rectify them, this must be aproof that theypossess the powerof reason. It is known thatbees make fourdifferent kinds ofcells. There arefirst the royalcells which areexceptional andare of acorn shape.Then there arethe large cells in Q^=^^^ ^^=-… … 166 A Book of Natural History whicli are also employed as ordinary store-rooms.These generally occupy about eight-tenths of the totalsurface of the combs in a hive; and finally thereare a certain number of what may be called tran-
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