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the descendants of the same stock retaining- the same 

 knowledge of the same fact for twenty years, during 

 which period there must have been as many generations 

 of bees, would seem to warrant the inference. But as it is 

 more probable that the party of surveying- scouts of the 

 first generation was the next year accompanied by 

 others of a second, who in like manner conducted their 

 brethren of the third, and these last again others of the 

 fourth generation, and so on, — ^I draw no other con- 

 clusion from it than that bees are endowed with me- 

 mory, which I think it proves most satisfactorily. 



I am, &c. 



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