The Life of the Bee 
always fly together, and that there will 
often be an interval of several seconds be- 
tween the different arrivals. As regards 
these communications, 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 treas- 
ure 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 indications, 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, corridors, 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 
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