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Sept 29th/58/ I put some bits of wax like dice about diameter of cell apart: a little thin wax was on surface between. See spec. C - in this they have bored little saucers & then have made curved wall on each side, connecting the dice; so that they build a wall or excavate where separate in curve.

In curved parts on corner sides flexure chiefly made by few irregular, elongated cells. I saw other cases of converging comb, with partition half-way down & 2 cells run into very perfect hexagons. In one part it is astonishing how absolutely true the hexagons are on surface of comb. I have found one hexagon [illeg] replaced coordinately into 3 converging hexagons.

It is impossible to exaggerate of blending of vermilion colour on my many adjoining cells. I found several

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cells naturally coloured orange, which had whole pyramid of one cell in so many cases coloured - that it shows some [crossing] of work on each cell.