tisfactory ; nor does even the firm and hollow 

 structure of these appendages, furnished with an 

 arrangement something like that of semicircular 

 canals, leave the subject without many douhts. 

 We must remember further, that spiders which 

 have no antennae have the faculty of hearing, 

 and that it is not destroyed in grasshoppers after 

 these organs have been removed. 



Upon the subject of hearing in general, as en- 

 joyed by insects, Bonsdorf remarks, that the more 

 attentive observers and describers of the honey 

 bee, mention differences in their sounds, such 

 as a humming early in the morning, when the 

 working bees go out upon their flower-choosing 

 excursions ; another, when they call forth the 

 whole hive in defence of the state against the at- 

 tack of enemies ; another, when they clear their 

 hives from filth ; and another, when the queen 

 bee leads forth a swarm to seek new settlements. 

 " Now," he says, " I ask those who deny hearing 

 to insects, what can be the use of sounds so vari- 

 ously modulated, unless the bees can by hearing 

 discriminate those sounds ?" 



There is another consideration connected with 

 the life of insects, which I believe was first 

 philosophically advanced by Lord Kames, but 

 has intuitively been admitted by many, which 

 places the goodness of the Creator in an equally 

 strong light : it is the kind of perception of time 

 which certain insects in all probability enjoy. 

 To the superficial thinker it may appear that 

 the brief existence of many winged insects 



