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May 8 / 1858 Opened straw Hive of Mr Innes.

In irregular parts, where one cell covered 4 others, owing to the cells not opening opposite each other pyramidal bases had four sides

(The attachment, of comb very irregular to size: I c^d detect to hexagonal upper cells but to base wax in all cases slightly concave, or sub-angular or flat & irregular They are not [precisely] angular. no doubt owing to surface.

The cells were, however in regular attendance on two sides, in every other way irregular. Nothing c^d be less regular than cells when in at first interfered with their regular growth. —

I tending on Knife edge of Hive, there is no difficulty in striking to intermediate planes betwe to plane [illeg] between any two spheres, or spot where Bees are working on opposite sides of comb, which one at first thinks to be impossible, forgetting that production of pyramidica l each rhomb is found on very edge of comb