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the sides of the enclosure. If such behavior can be called a 

 tropism then these bees are positively phototactic. 



8. Without predicating curiosity or logical thinking to these 

 bees and granting that the behavior of the boy is more flexible, 

 it seems to the present writer that the reaction of these bees 

 towards light resembles more the response of a small boy to 

 the music of a brass band than it does the turning of a magnetic 

 needle towards the pole. 



