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that it would not readily be found by the bees; and 
then, after bringing a bee to the honey, to watch 
whether it brought others, or sent them—the latter of 
course implying a much higher order of intelligence 
and power of communication. 
I therefore placed some honey in a glass, close to 
an open window in my sitting-room, and watched it for 
sixty hours of sunshine, during which no bees came 
to it. 
I then, at 10 a.m. on a beautiful morning in June, 
went to my hives, and took a bee which was just 
starting out, brought it in my hand up to my room 
(a distance of somewhat less than 200 yards), and gave 
it some honey, which it sucked with evident enjoyment. 
After a few minutes it flew quietly away, but did not 
return ; nor did any other bee make its appearance. 
The following morning I repeated the same experi- 
ment. At 7.15 I brought up a bee, which sipped the 
honey with readiness, and after doing so for about four 
minutes flew away with no appearance of alarm or 
annoyance. It did not, however, return ; nor did any 
other bee come to my honey. 
On several other occasions I repeated the same experi- 
ments with a like result. Altogether I tried it more than 
twenty times. Indeed, I rarely found bees to return to 
honey if brought any considerable distance at once. By 
taking them, however, some twenty yards each time they 
came to the honey, I at length trained them to come to 
my room. On the whole, however, I found it more con- 
