142 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
enough. If, on the contrary, the others are sent, the case 
will be very different. To test this, Sir John kept honey in a 
given place for some time, in order to satisfy himself that it 
would not readily be found by the bees, and then brought a 
bee to the honey, marking it so that he could ascertain 
whether it brought others or sent them, the latter, of course, 
implying a much higher order of intelligence and power of 
communication. After trying the experiment several times 
with single bees and obtaining only negative results, Sir John 
Lubbock procured one of Marriott’s observatory-hives, which 
he placed in his sitting-room. The bees had free access to 
the open air; but there was also a small side or postern door, 
which could be opened at pleasure, and which led into the 
room. This enabled him to feed and mark any particular 
bees; and he recounted a number of experiments, from which 
it appeared that comparatively few bees found their own way 
through the postern, while of those which did so the great 
majority flew to the window, and scarcely any found the 
honey for themselves. Those, on the contrary, which were 
taken to the honey, passed backwards and forwards between 
it and the hive, making, on an average, five journeys in the 
hour. Sir John had also in a similar manner watched a 
number of marked wasps, with very similar results. These, 
and other observations of the same tendency, appear to show 
that, even if bees and wasps have the power of informing one 
another when they discover a store of good food, at any rate 
they do not habitually do so; and this seemed to him a 
strong reason for concluding that they are not in the habit of 
communicating facts. When once wasps had made themselves 
thoroughly acquainted with their way, their movements were 
most regular. They spent three minutes supplying themselves 
with honey, and then flew straight to the nest, returning after 
an interval of about ten minutes, and thus making, like the 
bees, about five journeys an hour. During September they 
began in the morning at about six o’clock, and later when the 
mornings began to get cold, and continued to work without 
intermission till dusk. They made, therefore, rather more than 
fifty journeys in the day. Sir John had also made some 
experiments on the behaviour of bees introduced into strange 
hives, which seemed to contradict the ordinary statement that 
strange bees are always recognized and attacked. Another 
