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The next slide will show you something about the ant. You 

 know among the trees, in the grass, all through the soil, we 

 have ants ever)-where, and sometimes they give us no little 

 trouble. Now the queen ant is very different from the queen 

 bee. After she mates with the male she drops to the ground, 

 searches out some spot which is protected, some hole in the 

 ground — lays the eggs, takes care of them, takes care of the 

 young after they hatch and until they are grown, and then 

 they take care of her. You see a condition of things very 

 different from that of the queen bee who has to be cared for 

 at every step. The queen ant is in no sense a laying machine, 

 or not at all in the same way as the queen bee. 



Here you can see very clearly the different stages in the 

 growth of the bee, — the development of the bee from the egg 

 to the adult. Now you know that in the hive when one queen 

 hatches she rules the colony. She goes about over the cells and 

 if there are other queens about to hatch she stings them unless 

 she is prevented from doing it. That means you have a com- 

 munity here which must be ruled over by one queen and one 

 queen only. 



Here we have the brain and the nervous system of the bee. 

 Up at the top you see the little bunch of nervous matter which 

 enables the bee to do all the work which it does, — most won- 

 derful little mass of matter in the world. 



I wish you would pay particular attention to this picture. 

 Here we have the brain of the drone. I want you to notice how 

 narrow it is and thin. He doesn't do much. He exists only 

 for the purpose of mating with the queen and that does not re- 

 quire much brains. Here is the brain of the queen and you 

 notice how much thicker it is than the brain of the drone. At 

 the top you have the brain of the worker, and you know that 

 the worker bee does nearly all the work in the hive, all but the 

 laying of eggs, and sometimes that, although its eggs produce 

 males. You can find nowhere, so far as I know, a more inter- 

 esting and more significant set of figures than these. For we 

 find when we examine the brain of m.an, the brain of adult 

 man, the brain of the feeble-minded man, the same condition 

 as we find here between the worker bee, the queen bee and the 

 drone bee. The feeble-minded child has a brain which is 

 something like this, very small and little developed. Another 

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