Dee Lusby asked (once again): >Has any of this early wax been sampled and analyzed to what >type of bees made it from early voyages from America back >to Europe? Isn't there any samples of early wax to be found >in any museums in Europe that could be sampled? As far as I can recall, Columbus, according to his ship's log, had used the wax (whatever kind it was) to seal an account of his trip into a floating container in the event that he didn't make it back to Spain (the old note in a bottle trick). That would indicate that we would have only his log to rely upon, not the actual wax that he used. Adrian Adrian M. Wenner (805) 963-8508 (home phone) 967 Garcia Road (805) 893-8062 (UCSB FAX) Santa Barbara, CA 93106 [http://www.beesource.com/pov/wenner/index.htm] ***************************************************** * * "We not only believe what we see: * to some extent we see what we believe." * * Richard Gregory (1970) * *****************************************************