. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. American Vee Journal roadside, get the honey habit, and keep your products away from the big smoke, where they don't eat it, but try to sell it in just such out-back places as you live in. The prosperous people of our land can better afford to eat honey at decent prices than the poorer paid artisans, etc., of Britain and the ' Continong ' can, and those same decent prices, plus extra packing, extra carrying and extra ; Yours ever, G. R. Harrison. "Glen Havard," Ourimbah, N. S. W. —Australia?! Bee Bulletin. Portrait Photograp
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. American Vee Journal roadside, get the honey habit, and keep your products away from the big smoke, where they don't eat it, but try to sell it in just such out-back places as you live in. The prosperous people of our land can better afford to eat honey at decent prices than the poorer paid artisans, etc., of Britain and the ' Continong ' can, and those same decent prices, plus extra packing, extra carrying and extra ; Yours ever, G. R. Harrison. "Glen Havard," Ourimbah, N. S. W. —Australia?! Bee Bulletin. Portrait Photographed Through the Eye of a Bee.—Our readers know, as everybody does, that if you look into the eye of any one you will see your picture there. The IBritish Bee Journal, in its Nov. 7 issue, gives an enlarged reproduction of a small portion of the eye of a bee, some 240 facets, with, in each of them greatly magnified, the face of Mr. James Bancroft, as photographed by Mr. Watson. "To obtain a portrait of Mr. Bancroft was simple enougii, as was also the procuring of a few of Mr. Bancroft's bees and dissecting some of their eyes; but setting up an eye so that the portrait could be seen through it and photographed was a somewhat different matter. First, a dissected eye had to be mounted so that it could be placed upon the stage of a microscope for observation. Next, a transparent positive, on a reduced scale of the portrait, had to be made to be seen through the eye. Then an apparatus was necessary for enabling a strong light to be thrown through the portrait and the eye. on to a sensitive photographic ; It must not be supposed that an in- sect sees separate images of objects, as repeated in each facet. Only one im- pression reaches the brain, as is the case with human beings, even though, in the case of the bee, several thousand impressions are made on the numerous facets of their compound eyes. This article, in the British Bee Jour- nal, is well worth, by its in
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