Letters On Entomology Intended for the Amusement And Instruction of Young Perso
Letters On Entomology Intended for the Amusement And Instruction of Young Perso
Ren Antoine Ferchault De Raumur
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It is a little city, divided into regular streets, composed of houses, constructed on the most exact geometrical principles, some serving for storehouses, others for the habitations of the citizens, and a few much larger for the palaces of the sovereigns, made of materials which the skill of man would in vain attempt to imitate, and this is all done by insects ! Well may Bonnet exclaim, " Quel abime aux yeux d'un sage qu'une ruche d'Abeilles ! Quelle sagesse profonde se cache dans cet abime ! Q...uel philosophe osera le fonder !" It is not necessary, as you must be aware, that bees should have a hive ; any other cavity would LETTERS ON ENTOMOLOGY. 59 serve them as well. You must have seen a honey- comb, and observed that it is a flattish cake, com- posed of a vast number of cells, mostly hexagonal, regularly applied side by side, and placed in two layers end to end. Several of these combs are fixed to the upper part and sides of the hive, at the distance of about half an inch from each other.
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