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contrary, which I put in with her, got out at once. At 

 1 1.30 I put another bee and a fly into the same glass : 

 the latter flew out at once. For half an hour the bee 

 tried to get out at the closed end ; I then turned the 

 glass with its open end to the light, when she flew out at 

 once. To make sure, I repeated the experiment once 

 more with the same result. 



Some bees, however, have seemed to me more in- 

 telligent in this respect than others. A bee which I 

 had fed several times, and which had flown about in 

 the room, found its way out of the glass in a quarter of 

 an hour, and when put in a second time came out at 

 once. Another bee, .when I closed the postern door 

 which opened from my hive directly into my room, 

 used to come round to the honey through an open 

 window. 



One day (April 14, 1872), when a number of 

 them were very busy on some berberries, I put a saucer 

 with some honey between two bunches of flowers ; these 

 flowers were repeatedly visited, and were so close that 

 there was hardly room for the saucer between them, 

 yet from 9.30 to 3.30 not a single bee took any notice 

 of the honey. At 3.30 I put some honey on one of the 

 bunches of flowers, and it was eagerly sucked by the 

 bees ; two kept continually returning till past five in 

 the evening. 



One day when I came home in the afternoon I found 

 that at least a hundred bees had got into my room 

 through the postern and were on the window, yet not 



