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be attained," and they go right on and build the comb. 



Take another case — that of a colony of bees which has met with 

 sudden disaster involving the destruction of their habitation. The 

 circumstance is analogous to such as occasionally shocks the civilized 

 world. The successive phases of action show a striking parallel 

 between the bee-community and the human community. The first 

 visible manifestation of feeling seems to be one of utter consterna- 

 tion and fright at this unforeseen cataclysm, exhibited in the com- 

 mon impulse of escape. This, it is true, may be entirely instinctive, 

 and probably is so, both in insects and humans; this is succeeded 

 by a period of dejection and evident failure to comprehend the neces- 

 sities of the case. The bees are confronted with the problem of re- 

 building their wrecked habitation and restoring the disturbed social 

 economy. The interval occupied in figuring out this problem is suf- 

 ficient to indicate to the intelligent observer that some intelligence, 

 either of the mass of bees working together, or of individuals to 

 Avhom are delegated the engineering and sanitary problems involved, 

 is concerned with the solution of this problem. 



Whether this be a task for individual or collective mind is not 

 so important as the fact that it is presently solved; the plan is 

 made ; the directing force is lodged somewhere in this multitude of 

 insects and the whole company so lately discouraged and inert now 

 attack with vigor and persistence the labors of rebuilding and with- 

 out pause or question carry forward their gigantic task to a success- 

 ful conclusion. 



It is submitted that the difficulties involved, the inertia of dis- 

 couragement, the sanitary, mechanical and engineering problems to 

 be reckoned with, are comparable with those exhibited in the anal- 

 ogous human catastrophe ; if the bees possess no reasoning faculties, 

 these difficulties must be immeasurably greater than those which 

 confront the human under like circumstances. The questioning 

 reader is invited, however, to notice that at every point involved in 

 the successful solution of these difficulties, (and they never fail) is 

 evidence of "a facility which is concerned with the intentional ada/^ta- 

 tion of means to an end, implying conscions foiozelediie of the relation 

 between means employed and ends attained, exercised in adaptation to 

 circiinistances novel alike to the experience of the indiz'idnal and to 

 that of the species." This is what Romanes characterizes as "Rea- 

 son or Intelligence." 



(Concluded next month) 



Bartle, Oriente, Cuba. started this, and the last I heard he was 



E. B. T., page 420, November, asks meeting with great success. He is not 



about honey in individual service pack- a honey producer, but by writing him 



ages. Two years ago a friend of mine, one might get some pointers, unless he 



Mr. UHman, of the wholesale house of might not care to give away his snap, 



Steele-W'edeles Co., Chicago, Illinois, if it is one. 



