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made 28 journeys, but did not bring a single friend 
with her. 
Experiment 7.—On July 19 I put a bee toa honey- 
comb which contained twelve and a half pounds of honey 
at 12.30, and which was placed in a corner of my room 
as far as possible from the window. That afternoon she 
made 22 visits to it, and no other bee came. The 
following morning she returned at 6.5 a.M., and I 
watched her till 2. She made 22 journeys, but did not 
bring a single friend with her. 
Experiment 8.—Another bee was also brought to 
the same honeycomb, watched from 2.30 till 7.14. She 
made 14 journeys, but did not bring a single friend. 
I might give other similar cases, but these are, I 
think, sufficient to show that bees do not bring their 
friends to share any treasure they have discovered, so 
invariably as might be assumed from the statements 
of previous observers. Possibly the result is partly 
due to the fact that my room is on the first floor, so 
that the bees coming to it flew at a higher level than 
that generally used by their companions, and hence 
were less likely to be followed. 
Indeed, I have been a good deal surprised at the 
difficulty which bees experience in finding their way. 
For instance, I put a bee into a bell-glass 18 inches 
long, and with a mouth 6} inches wide, turning the closed 
end to the window; she buzzed about for an hour, 
when, as there seemed no chance of her getting out, 
I put her back into the hive. Two flies, on the 
