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be cut away (with some difficulty) to enable the photograph to
be taken. Mr. Strowlger saw a swarm of bees, early in June,
over his farm, but they went up high in the air and disappeared.
It is supposed that these are the same bees. The comb is
BEES' NEST FOUND AT MILE END, COLCHESTER.
estimated to contain from 25 to 30lb. of honey." The photograph
is by Mr. J. E. Stutter, Ellington Road, Colchester, and the
block is kindly lent by Mr. C. E. Henham.
Daphnia magna in Epping Forest.—At the meeting
on 25th January 1913, Mr. Scourfield in exhibiting a living male
Daphnia magna, said the specimen was noticed a week or two
previously in a bottle containing water taken near Hunstanton
in the summer, and in which females of the same species had
lived continuously ever since. The males of the Cladocera