The herald., 1896-07-18
CAAU|AUQUA ASSEMBLY
People Attend From Far
and Near
PROFESSOR A. ]. COOKS LECTURE
On Entomology and the Habits
OF the Busy Bee
EXCITING VOCAL CONTEST
At Which Thirteen Am lteur Sing zers
Compete for a Prize
The Normll Bible Class and the Studies In
Botany
EXCITING VOCAL CONTEST
At Which Thirteen Am lteur Sing ers
Compete for a Prize
The Normil Bible Class and the Studies In
Botany
iaereasei Atteniaacs AMI Larger Audiences
at All thc feelings Yesteriay-Ths Pro-
gram fo- Toby - chau,auqIa Assem-.
by Notes ami Personal Itlms

The exodus from the interior towns
and cities has swelled the population
of the summer resorts all along the coast,
and Long Beach has come in for its share
of visitors. The fact Of the Chautauqua
assembly being in session has tended
to attract many to Long Beach that
would not otherwise have selected 1t
for their summer resort. Today the
town is filled with enthusiastic students,
old and young, from all over the state,
attending the various classes and the
lectures of the Chautauqua assembly
The popular afternoon lectures and
evening entertainments daily draw
large crowds.
AFTERNOON SESSION
The short exercises which preceded the
lecture of Prof a. j. Cook consisted of
IN excellent recitation or reading by
Miss Mary M. Palette from the pro-
duction of Mary l.. Wright entitled The
White Lily, also some singing in which
the audience Joined. Prof. Cook was
then introduced and announced as his
subject, The Bee, It's Habits
Prof. Cook stated that he had promised
to give lecture in the course, and had
prepared one fitting the time and place,
but upon special request he had dis
carded it, and would attempt to repeat
the talk on bees given under the aus
pices of ChautauQua two years ago. AS
that was entirely impromptu and de-
veloped at the beck of very responsive
Chautauqua audience, this address
tol,t Of 4.
Continuing, Prof. Cook said: Bees are
of exceeding interest to us because of
their great economic Importance, be-
cause of their exceptionally varied func-
tional development and equally wonder
full structural notifications and last
because of their highest rank in the
great branch to which they belong.
They are te-+-- anthropoda what man is
TO the vertebrate branch. Bees econom-
tcally are not only or chiefly important
because of the valuable economic prod
ccts which they give us, viz: honey and
wax. but they are of transcendant i'm
portance as pollinators. Marriage
priests" as it were. in the great vege-
table world. We now know that full
fruitage only comes with full pollination,
and complete pollination depends upon
insects, and chiefly upon bees. The in
telligent fruit grower no longer cries out
against bees, even though they are oc-
caSionally VeXatiouS and disturbing in
their great readiness to appropriate the
0oZing juices of our over-ripe fruit We
now Know of surety that our cherries,
pears and plums, and even our olives,
Will produce but indifferently we'll ex-
cept as bees are present in the time of
bloom to cross -pollinate the flowers. OF
late 1t has been observed that walnuts
are tending to produce only pistate bios
SONS. and in such case ross-pollination
and bees are absolutely essential to a
crop of this important product of our
beautiful Southern California" The
speaker next examined the varied func-
tions of the bees; their gathering of
nectar and reducing 1t to honey; their
gathering of pollen and digestng it;
their cleaning of wax from buds and
their secretion Of wax scales; also their
production of the wonderful immaculate
comb; their varied sexual DEVELOPMENT
INTO queen, drones or males and the
workers on undeveloped females. The
queen and drone have no function in the
economy of the hive except the sexual
Thus the workers even prepare or digest
their food for them. That this food is
near perfection Is shown in the fact that
the queen can lay 5000 eggs daily, or a
number equal in weight to twice her
In preparing food, he may expect to Sc
cure about twenty dozen of eggs daily
from each Leghorn or Brahma hen, and
as many pounds of butter from his Jer-
sey cow. Prof. Cook then explained the
organs of smell, the antennae; showed
now necessary it was that the bee nose
should be kept clean, and described the
character and use of the antennae clean
ers-a most marvellous arrangement
and the most perfect as we'll as the most
unique. pocket handkerchief ever fash
1oned. The bee tongue, leg and honey
stomach were each described and shown
TO be extreme cases of structural modifi-
cation and fully comparable to the hu-
man hand in their dextrous and varied
USE
Prof. Cooks lectures before his dass
on physiology are exceedingly interest
ing and vastly instructive A manikin
hangs In full view of the class which the
essorcontinually uses in his explana-
tlons. Also, model showing the course
or the veins throughout the body and
the position of the muscles. In this class
the older people are in the majority.
BIBLE READING
An exhaustive study of the book of
Hebrews is being made by those attend
ing the lectures of DR.. Frost Some
difficulty has occurred in connection
tngs. but the matter has been adjusted
to the satisfaction of all. A small fee
is charged. which covers the entire
course
BOTANY
The work in botany from to 10 a m
under Prof. A. G. McClatchie of the
Nebraska State university is Conducted
in accordance with the most modern Ia h.
oratory methods. The work consists
chiefly of examining. drawing and nre-
serving typical plants, beginning with
the lowest forms and proceeding to the
higher Occasional collecting excur-
sions are made as the work progresses
At present the class is working upon
green algae. Later the brown and red
marine algae will be taken UP. then a
few typical fungi, then mosses, ferns
and so on to the highest Towering
plants. When the latter plants are
reached considerable time will be spent
In determining the names of those grow
ing about Long Beach. In addition to the
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