> Being as this was a scientific investigation, would there not bee rough notes available that would document this seemingly, at the time, supercilious information?

I think you mean superfluous. But in any case, I made a mistake saying Dr. Allen was working in England when she was obviously in Scotland. In her paper on queen cells, she refers to the bees used as *Apis mellifera* and does not designate the subspecies or type. In fact, a perusal of the few papers she published seems to indicate a lack of concern about the trinomial form. From this we can probably conclude nothing, but I agree that the bees were likely A. m. m. Work by Morse in the USA (1962), however, agrees with the suggestion that the presence of mature queen cells does not indicate that the bees will swarm (or supersede). I think the "decision process" to swarm (or supersede) is more complicated than we want to think. 

PLB

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