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it resides in some organ near the mouth : in other 

 parts of the animal creation certainly, that is its 

 situation ; and as there seems to be a necessary 

 connection between smell and taste, analogy should 

 lead us to argue in favour of that opinion ; but 

 though smell be usually accompanied by respira- 

 tory organs, they may not be essentially necessary 

 to it ; a bee may receive impressions from external 

 objects, in a manner which we cannot comprehend. 

 In confirmation of this opinion of KIRBY and 

 SPENCE, we have the experiments of HUBER. It 

 seems that no odour is so unpleasant to insects as 

 that of oil of turpentine. M. HUBER having pre- 

 sented this oil, on the point of a camel's hair pencil, 

 successively to every part of the abdomen, trunk 

 and head, it excited no uneasiness in the bee : he 

 then tried the eyes and antennae, but with the 

 same result ; yet as soon as he pointed it a little 

 above the insertion of the proboscis, near the 

 cavity of the mouth, the bee receded, became 

 agitated, clapped its wings, and would have taken 

 flight, had not the pencil been withdrawn. This 

 experiment was repeated with the turpentine and 

 other articles of penetrating odour, and with the 

 same effect ; but when the mouths of several bees 

 were stopped with paste, no such consequences 

 ensued, on the contrary they traversed the im- 

 pregnated pencils without being at all annoyed 

 by them ; even honey did not attract them. All 



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