Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 191
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- … WoBKEK. Drone. sition cells. Although these latter are inevitably irreg-ular, the dimensions of the second or third type are sowell calculated that when the decimal system was firstestablished, and people were seeking an incontestablestandard of measurement, it was the cell of the beewhich was…
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