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together, and that there will often be an 
interval of several seconds between the dif- 
ferent arrivals. As regards these communi- 
cations, therefore, we must ask ourselves the 
question that Sir John Lubbock has solved 
as far as the ants are concerned. 
Do the comrades who flock to the trea- 
sure only follow the bee that first made the 
discovery, or have they been sent on by her, 
and do they find it through following her in- 
dications, her description of the place where 
it lies? Between these two hypotheses, that 
refer directly to the extent and working of 
the bee’s intellect, there is obviously an 
enormous difference. The English savant 
has succeeded, by means of an elaborate and 
ingenious arrangement of gangways, corri- 
dors, moats full of water, and flying bridges, 
in establishing that the ants in such cases do 
no more than follow in the track of the 
pioneering insect. With ants, that can be 
made to pass where one will, such experi- 
ments are possible; but for the bee, whose 
wings throw every avenue open, some other 
expedient must of necessity be contrived. I 
imagined the following, which, though it 
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