ANTS, BEES, AND WASPS: 



A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social Hymenoplera. 



By Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, Bart., M. P., F. E. 8., etc., 



Author of " Origin of Civilization, and the Primitive Condition of Man," etc., etc. 



WITH COLORED PLATES. 12no. Cloth, $2.00. 



" This volume contains the record of various experiments made with ants, bees, and 

 wasps during the last ten years, with a view to test their mental condition and powers 

 of sense. The principal point in which Sir John's mode of experiment differs from 

 those of Huber, Forel, McCook, and others, is that he has carefully watched and 

 marked particular insects, and has had their nests under observation for long periods 

 one of his ants' nests having been under constant inspection ever since Is74. His 

 observations are made principally upon ants because they show more power and flexi- 

 bility of mind; and the value of his studies Is that they belong to the department of 

 original research." 



"We have no hesitation in saying that the author has presented us with the most 

 valuable series of observations on a special subject that has ever been produced, charm- 

 ingly written, full of logical deductions, and, when we consider his multitudinous en- 

 gagements, a remarkable illustration of economy of time. As a contribution to insect 

 psychology, it will be long before this book finds a parallel." London Athenwum. 



" These studies, when handled by such a master as Sir John Lubbock, rise far above 

 the ordinary dry treatment of such topics. The work is an effort made to discover 

 what are the general, not the special, laws which govern conimunties of insects com- 

 posed of inhabitants as numerous as the human beings living in London and Peking, and 

 who labor together in the utmost harmony for the common good. That there are re-, 

 markable analogies between societies of ants and human beings no one can doubt. If, 

 according to Mr. Grote, 'positive morality under some form or other has existed in 

 every society of which the world has ever had experience,' the present volume is an 

 effort to show whether this passage be correct or not." New York Times- 



" In this work the reader will find the record of a series of experiments and obser- 

 vations more thorough and ingenious than those instituted by any of the accomplished 

 author's predecessors. . . . Sir John has been a close observer of the habits of ants for 

 many years, generally having from thirty to forty communities under his notice, and 

 not only watching each of these in its carefully isolated glass house, but, by the use of 

 paint-marks, following the fortunes of individuals. . . . One notable result of this sys- 

 tem has been the correcting of previous theories as to the age to which ants attain : in- 

 stead of living merely a year, as the popular belief has been, some of Sir John's queens 

 and workers are thriving after being under observation since 1S74 and 1675." New 

 York World. 



"Sir John Lubbock's book on 'Ants, Bees, and Wasps' is mainly devoted to the 

 crawlers, and not the fliers, though he has some observations upon honey-bees and 

 more interesting ones upon the unpopular wasp, which he fondly deems to be capable 

 of gratitude. Darwin made a strong case for the monkeys, but Imbbock may yet 

 make us out to be. as Irishmen say, ' The sons of our ants.' For he begins his enter- 

 taining book thus : ' The anthropoid apes no doubt approach nearer to man in bodily 

 structure than do any other animals, but, when we consider the habits of ants, their 

 large communities and elaborate habitations, their roadways, their possession of do- 

 mestic animals, and, even in some cases, of slaves, it must be admitted that they hav 

 a fair claim to rank next to man in the scale of intelligence.' " Sprinc'fleld Eepublican. 



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