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honey on one of the bunches of flowers, and it waa 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 pos- 

 tern and were on the window, yet not one was attracted by an 

 open jar of honey which stood in a shady corner about 3 feet 

 6 inches from the window. 



One day (29th April, 1872) I placed a saucer of honey close 

 to some forget-me-nots, on which bees were numerous and 

 busy; yet from 10 a.m. till 6 only one bee went to the honey. 



I put some honey in a hollow in the garden wall opposite 

 the hives at 10.30 (this wall is about five feet high and four 

 feet from the hives) ; yet the bees did not find it during the 

 whole day. 



On the 30th March, 1873, a fine sunshiny day, when the 

 bees were very active, I placed a glass containing honey at 9 in 

 the morning on the wall in front of the hives ; but not a single 

 bee went to the honey the whole day. On April 20 1 tried the 

 same experiment, with the same result. 



September 19. — At 9.30 I placed some honey in a glass 

 about four feet from and just in front of the hive ; but during 

 the whole day not a bee observed it. 



As it then occurred to me that it might be suggested that 

 there was something about this honey which rendered it unat- 

 tractive to the bees, on a following day I placed it again on the 

 top of the wall for three hours, during which not a single bee 

 came, and then moved it close to the alighting-board of the 

 hive. It remained unnoticed for a quarter of an hour, when 

 two bees observed it ; and others soon followed in considerable 

 numbers, . . . On the whole, wasps seem to me more clever in 

 finding their way than bees. I tried wasps with the glass 

 mentioned on p. 124 [i.e. the bell-jar], but they had no diffi- 

 culty in finding their way out. 



We shall now conclude this resumS of Sir John- 

 Lubbock's observations by quoting two other passages 

 bearing on the general intelligence of bees and wasps : — 



The following fact struck me as rather remarkable. The 

 wasp already mentioned at the foot of p. 135 one day smeared 

 her wings with syrup, so that she could not fly. When this 

 happened to a bee, it was only necessary to carry her to the 

 alighting-board, when she was soon cleaned by her comrades. 

 But I did not know where this wasp's nest was, and therefore 



