Origin--How Collected and Stored--Constitution--Poisonous Honey--Best varieties of Honey--Distances traversed by Bees in search of Honey--Uses 44-48 CHAPTER VII. MEAD. Nature--Method of Manufacture--Metheglin and Mead--Estimation in former times--Queen Elizabeth's Recipe--Scandinavian liking for Mead. 49-52 CHAPTER VIII. WAX. Origin--Production--Chemical Constitution--Comb-Building-- Detailed Description--Amount of Wax in Hives--Commercial Value--Properties. 53-71 CHAPTER IX. POLLEN, OR BEE-BREAD. Origin--Collection--Conveyance--Deposition--Quantity Stored--Uses--Artificial Substitutes. 72-75 CHAPTER X. PROPOLIS. Derivation of Word--Sources--Nature--Purposes--Quantity Collected--Adaptation of Materials to Wants of Bees. 76-79 CHAPTER XI. PHYSIOLOGY OF THE BEE. Nervous System--The Head--Eyes--Compound and Simple--Uses and Powers--Sir John Lubbock's Experiments--The Antennæ --Structure and Uses--Mouth--Detailed Description. 80-100 CHAPTER XII. HEARING, TASTE, AND SMELLING. Hearing--Sir John Lubbock's Experiments--Sounds uttered by Queen--Effects produced by them--Smell-Organs--Purposes --Liking for, and Antipathy to, certain Effluvia-- Discovery by Bees of Nectar and Honey 101-108 CHAPTER XIII. THE THORAX. Detailed Description--Legs--Wings--How used in Flight-- Hooking together--Employed for Ventilating. 109-114 CHAPTER XIV. THE ABDOMEN. Respiratory Organs--Circulation of Nutritive Fluid-- Digestion and Nutrition--Secretion of Wax--Reproductive Organs--Detailed description of Sting--Effects of Poison--Queen's Sting. 115-128 CHAPTER XV. THE DISEASES OF BEES.