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one was attracted by an open jar of honey which stood 

 in a shady corner about 3 feet 6 inches from the 

 window. 



Another day (April 29, 1872) I placed a saucer of 

 honey close to some forget-me-nots, on which bees 

 were numerous and busy ; yet from 10 a.m. till 6 only 

 one bee went to the honey. 



I put some honey in a hollow in the garden wall 

 opposite my hives at 10.30 (this wall is about five feet 

 high and four feet from the hives), yet the bees did 

 not find it during the whole day. 



On March 30, 1873, a fine sunshiny day, when the 

 bees were very active, I placed a glass containing 

 honey at 9 in the morning on the wall in front of the 

 hives ; but not a single bee went to the honey the 

 whole day. On April 20 I tried the same experiment 

 with the same result. 



September 19. — At 9.30 I placed some honey in a 

 glass about four feet from and just in front of the 

 hive, but during the whole day not a bee observed it. 



As it then occurred to me that it might be 

 suggested that there was something about this honey 

 which rendered it unattractive to the bees, on the 

 following day I first placed it again on the top of the 

 wall for three hours, during which not a single 

 bee came, and then moved it close to the alighting- 

 board of the hive. It remained unnoticed for a quarter 

 of an hour, when two bees observed it, and others soon 

 followed in considerable numbers. 



