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one was attracted by an open jar of honey which stood 
in a shady corner about 3 feet 6 inches from the 
window. 
Another day (April 29, 1872) I placed a saucer of 
honey close to some forget-me-nots, on which bees | 
were numerous and busy; yet from 10 A.M. till 6 only 
one bee went to the honey. 
I put some honey in a hollow in the garden wall 
opposite my hives at 10.30 (this wall is about five feet 
high and four feet from the hives), yet the bees did 
not find it during the whole day. 
On March 30, 1873, a fine sunshiny day, when the 
bees were very active, I placed a glass containing 
honey at 9 in the morning on the wall in front of the 
hives; but not a single bee went to the honey the 
whole day. On April 20 I tried the same experiment 
with the same result. 
September 19.—At 9.30 I placed some honey ina 
glass about four feet from and just in front of the 
hive, but during the whole day not a bee observed it. 
As it then occurred to me that it might be 
suggested that there was something about this honey 
which rendered it unattractive to the bees, on the 
following day I first placed it again on the top of the 
wall for three hours, during which not a single 
bee came, and then moved it close to the alighting- 
board of the hive. It remained unnoticed for a quarter 
of an hour, when two bees observed it, and others soon 
followed in considerable numbers. 
