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At 1.10 a stranger was picked up and dropped at 2. € 
1.42 a friend - 35 1.46 
1.52 55 35 55 1.56 
2.6 3 % 9 3.10 
Only one of them, and that one a stranger, was 
carried into the nest at 12.45, but brought out again 
at 1.10. 
October 6.—At 9 A.M. again tried the same experi- 
ment with four strangers and five friends. 
At 9.25 a friend was picked up and dropped at 9.31 
9.32 ‘5 3 $9 9.38 
9.35 a stranger a Pe 9.45 
9.45 a friend a és 9.52 
10. 8 a stranger 3 53 10.17 
10.17 a friend = 5 10.20 
10.22 a stranger ss 5 10.25 
10.28 =, P * 10.40 
10.25 a friend “3 9 10.31 
None of them were carried into the nest. 
These experiments seem to prove that under such 
circumstances ants, at least those belonging to this 
species, do not carry off their friends (when thus 
rendered insensible) into a place of safety. 
I think, however, that in this experiment the. 
ants being to all intents and purposes dead, we could 
not expect that any difference would be made between 
friends and strangers. I therefore repeated the same 
experiment, only, instead of chloroforming the ants, 
I intoxicated them. This experiment is more difficult, 
