. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. ERRATUM. We regret that an error appeared in Bee Journal of May 21st, page 201. On line two the date of the opening of the Royal Show should read June 30th, not July as The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, Mnd correspondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only and give their real names tnd addresses, not necessarily for publication, but Ms a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separat
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. ERRATUM. We regret that an error appeared in Bee Journal of May 21st, page 201. On line two the date of the opening of the Royal Show should read June 30th, not July as The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, Mnd correspondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only and give their real names tnd addresses, not necessarily for publication, but Ms a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected communications. THE IMMUNITY CHIMERA. [9031] Mr. Heap (page 222, " ," June 4th) is far too despondent in this matter. His three categories of im- munity not only fail to exhaust the sub- ject, but they scarcely touch it. They all bear upon inoculation, and therefore make it easy for Mr. Heap to say that im- munity must fail as soon as a new genera- tion of worker bees appears. Suppose, however, that a worker bee acquired by ingestion or miraculous gift an anti-microbe eager to feed on Nosema apis, capable of existing in small numbers without its special food, and also able to multiply rapidly when the need for it arose. That anti-microbe might easily be just as transmissible from worker-bee to worker-bee or larva as Nosema apis itself. The same could be said of a mere ferment acting as an immediate poison to the planonts of "Isle of Wight" disease in the folds of the chyle stomach. Not only worker-larvse, but drone-larvse and young queens could take this anti-toxin or what not, and thus immunity arising in a worker could go to the fountain-head of a new stock. It is not necessary to discuss the case of a queen developing an immune constitu- tion, though Mr. Heap is despondent about that also. Her daughter might make an alliance, he says, that would cancel the immunity. She would be more likely n
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