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legs, wings, and abdomen. The following day I offered her food 

 for the last time ; but both head and thorax were dead or paralyzed ; 

 she could but wag her tail, a last token, as I could almost fancy, 

 of gratitude and affection. As far as I could judge, her death 

 was quite painless ; and she now occupies a place in the British 

 Museum. 



Ants. 



My experiments with ants have not been very succcessful ; I 

 may, however, just mention the following : — 



On the 29th of December I took some red ants and placed 

 them in a glass in my room. On the 4th of March following 

 I put four of them back into their nest, but could not see any 

 sign of joy on their part, or any evidence that they were recog- 

 nized by their former companions. As, however, they soon went 

 down into their nest and were out of sight, this observation 

 was not very satisfactory. I therefore took some of the ants 

 which had been left in the nest, and placed them in the glass. 

 They joined the others, and crossed antennae in the usual way ; 

 but I saw no special signs of satisfaction or recognition. For 

 the sake of comparison, I put some other red ants with them, and 

 I could observe no difference of behaviour. 



