CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXV. 



INTELLECT AND INSTINCT IN BEES. 



PAGES 



Intellect in Man and Animals as Related to Immortality— Memory 

 — Judgment — Instances of Attention — Prevision — Provision 

 — Instinct — Manifestations — Bearing on Evolution . . . 234 — 243 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



BEES IN RELATION TO FLOWERS. 



Connection of Plant-life and Insect-life — Reproduction of Flowers 

 — Intervention of Insects — Hermaphrodite Flowers — Cross- 

 fertilisation — Cucumbers, Melons, &c. — Poplars — Firs — 

 Epilobium or Willow Herb — Cincerarias — Darwin's Experi- 

 ments — Nasturtium — Foxglove — Figwort — Salvia — Heath — 

 Strawberry, Raspberry, and Blackberry — Apple and Pear — 

 Altruism of Bees 244 — 258 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



SUPERSTITIONS CONNECTED WITH BEES. 



Superstitions likely to gather around Bees — Unlucky to Buy Bees 

 — Ill Omen for a Swarm to Settle on a Dry Stick — " Have 

 the Bees been told?" — Turning Hives on the Death of the 

 Owner — Probable Origin of these Errors 259 — 267 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



THE PROFITS OF BEE-KEEPING. 



Methods of Honey-taking — -Straw Caps — Bell-Glasses — Sections 

 — Frames — Extractors — Run Honey — Average Returns of 

 Hives . . 268 — 272 



