Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and ants, they are said to have only one queen, and to be able in case of need to evolve a queen from a larva, which in the ordinary course, would have produced a worker, by special feeding and education. I hope I have given you some idea of the variety of curious points on which information is wanted. I will refrain from quoting a familiar hymn to which my subject might have tempted me; but I will apply the moral of the honey bee so far as to point out that if each member of this Society would contribute something, just an interesting fact which had come under his own notice, a specimen or a nest which he had found in his house, we should soon have a respectable store of information on the manners and customs of this most interesting order of insects. AN ADDRESS TO STUDENTS OF BOTANY IN WESTERN INDIA. By A. K. Nairne. It may be assumed that in our days many of the young English men and English women who go out to India would like to know something about the floral beauties which meet their eyes wherever they turn. Many of them have known all the common flowers of the woods and the roadsides at home, and have very likely learnt enough of the elements of Botany to know the orders to which the commonest or the most beautiful belong. And it seems unnatural to them to be set down in a country full of beautiful flowers and ' to get no knowledge of them. In the same way there must be many intelligent young natives, whose education has taught them that every plant has its name and its place in classification, and who would therefore like to learn a little practically about Botany and its treasures. Now at home the number of small books intended to help beginners in the study of Botany is very great; the number of those which give lists of all the wild plants in England, mor...