Origin of Species Variorum

→ ( I. e. 1860 1861

( i . e . 1859

( i.e 1866

( i.e. 1869 1872

→ one sixth of 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869

one-sixth 1872

→ which they 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869

the sphere of which they 1872

→ flat bottoms; 1859 1860 1861 1866

bottoms with flat sides; 1869

flat bases; 1872

→ parts, only little bits, 1859 1860 1861 1866

some parts, only small portions, 1869 1872

→ on the opposite 1859 1860 1861 1866

in circularly gnawing away and deepening the basins on both 1869 1872

→ as they circularly gnawed away and deep- ened the basins on both sides, 1861

as they circularly gnawed away and deepened the basins on both sides, 1859 1860 1866

OMIT 1869 1872

at such a distance from each other, that by the time the basins had acquired the

above-stated

above stated

width → ( I. e. about the width of an ordinary cell), and were in depth about →one sixth of

~~the diameter~~

the diameter

of the

diameter

sphere

of →which they formed a part, the rims of the basins intersected or broke into each other. As soon as this occurred, the bees ceased to excavate, and began to build up flat walls of wax on the lines of intersection between the basins, so that each hexagonal prism was built upon the

festooned

scalloped

edge of a smooth basin, instead of on the straight edges of a three-sided pyramid as in the case of ordinary cells.

I then put into the hive, instead of a thick,

square

rectangular

piece of wax, a thin and narrow, knife-edged ridge, coloured with vermilion. The bees instantly began on both sides to excavate little basins near to each other, in the same way as before; but the ridge of wax was so thin, that the bottoms of the basins, if they had been excavated to the same depth as in the former

experi- ment,

experiment,

would have broken into each other from the opposite sides. The bees, however, did not suffer this to happen, and they stopped their excavations in due time; so that the basins, as soon as they had been a little deepened, came to have →flat bottoms; and these flat

sides,

bases,

bottoms,

formed by

little thin

thin little

plates of the vermilion wax

~~having been~~

having been

left ungnawed, were situated, as far as the eye could judge, exactly along the planes of imaginary intersection between the basins on the opposite sides of the ridge of wax. In →parts, only little bits, in other parts, large portions of a rhombic plate

were thus

had been

left between the opposed basins, but the work, from the unnatural state of things, had not been neatly performed. The bees must have worked at very nearly the same rate →on the opposite sides of the ridge of vermilion wax, →as they circularly gnawed away and deep- ened the basins on both sides,