. The bee and white ants, their manners and habits; with illustrations of animal instinct and intelligence. Bees; Instinct; Termites. THE BEE. tkus a geometrical figure, having as mucli regularity as the hexagonal tube, of which it forms the termination, but constraoted Fig. on a totally different principle. The angles of the lozenges, which form its sides, are one obtuse and the other acute ; and these pyramidal bases of the cells, on one side of the comb, fit into corresponding cavities, made by the similar pyramidal bases of the cells, on the other side of the comb, so as to leave no i
. The bee and white ants, their manners and habits; with illustrations of animal instinct and intelligence. Bees; Instinct; Termites. THE BEE. tkus a geometrical figure, having as mucli regularity as the hexagonal tube, of which it forms the termination, but constraoted Fig. on a totally different principle. The angles of the lozenges, which form its sides, are one obtuse and the other acute ; and these pyramidal bases of the cells, on one side of the comb, fit into corresponding cavities, made by the similar pyramidal bases of the cells, on the other side of the comb, so as to leave no intermediate unoccupied space. 58. Without the aid of perspective figures, and even with such aid, without some effort of imagination on the part of the reader, it would be impossible to convey a clear notion of this part of the structure of the honey-comb, and yet without such a clear notion it would be totally impossible to appreciate the admirable results of bee industry. We have, therefore, attempted to represent ia figs. 22 and 23, the bases of four contiguous cells seen from the inside and from the outside. In fig. 22 is presented an inside view of the bases of three adjacent cells, a a a. It must be observed that a a a are here intended to represent angular cavities, each formed by the junction of three lozenge-shaped planes, such as have been just described. Now it will be seen, that as a necessary consecpenoe of this juxtaposition, a figure will be formed at 6, by three lozenge- 28. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859. London, Lockwood & co
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