Ants, Bees, and Wasps. 



A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social Hy7nenopiera. 



By Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, Bart., M. P., F. K. S., etc., 

 Author of " Origin of Civilization, and the Primitive Condition of Man/'' etc., etc. 



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"This volume contains the record of various experiments made with ants, bees, and 

 wasps durinjJT the last ten years, with a view to test their mental condition and powers 

 of sense. The principal point in which ^ir John's mode of experiment differs from 

 those of Iluber, Forel, McCook, and others, is that he has carefully watched and 

 marked particular insects, and has had their nests under observation for lonsr periods 

 — one of hi.s ants' nests havino^ been under constant inspection ever since 1ST4. His 

 observations are made principally upon ants because they show more power ard flexi- 

 bility of mind; and the value of his studies is that they belong to the department of 

 original research." 



" We have no hesitition in saying that the author has presented us with the most 

 valuable series of observations on a special subject that has ever been produced, charm- 

 ingly written, full of logical deductions, and, when we consider his multitudinous en- 

 gagements, a remarkable illustration of economy of time. As a contribution to insect 

 psychology, it will be long before this book tinds a parallel." — London Athenceum. 



" These studiu.s, when handled by such a master as Sir John J.ubbock,rise far above 

 the ordinary dry treatment of such toi)ics. The work is an effort made to discover 

 what are the gener.al. not the special, laws which govern communties of insects com- 

 posed of inhabitants as numerous as the human beings living in London and I'eking.and 

 who labor together in the utmost harmony for the common good. That there are re- 

 markable analogies between societies of ants and human beings no one can doubt. If, 

 according to Mr. Orote. 'positive morality under some form or other has existed in 

 every society of which the world has ever had experience,' the present volume is an 

 effort to show whi'ther this passage be correct or not." — New Tork Times. 



" In this work the reader will And tlie record of a series of experiments and obser- 

 vations more thorough and ingenious than those instituted by any of the accomplished 

 author's predecessors. . . . Sir^John has been a close observer ot the habits of ants for 

 many years, generally having from thirty to forty communities under his notice, and 

 not only watchint,' each of these in its carefully isolated glass house, but, by the use of 

 paint-marks, following the fortunes of individuals. . . . One notable result of this sys- 

 tem has been the correcting of previous theories as to the age to which ants attain : in- 

 stead of living merely a year, as the popular belief has been, some of Sir John's queens 

 and workers arc thriving after being under observation since 1874 and 1875." — New 

 York World. 



"Sir John Lubbock's book on 'Ants, Bees, and Wasps' is mainly devoted to the 

 crawlers, and not the fliers, though he has some observations upon hone3'-bees and 

 more interesting ones upon the un|)opular wasp, which he fondly deems to be capable 

 of gratitude. Darwin made a strong case for the monkeys, but Ij»ibbnck may yet 

 make us out to be. as Irishmen say, ' The sons of our ants.' For he begins his enter- 

 taining book thus: ' The anthropoid apes no doubt approach nearer to man in bodily 

 structure than do any other animals, but, when we consider the Imbits of ants, their 

 large communities and elaborate habitations, their roadways, their possession of do- 

 mestic animals, and, even in some cases, of slaves, it must be admitted that i\\e\ have 

 a fjiir claim to rank next to man in the scale of intelligence.' " — Sprim field liepublicun. 



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