The Progress of the Race 
clearly that the customs and prudent or- 
ganisation of the hive are not the results 
of a primitive impulse, mechanically fol- 
lowed through different ages and climates, 
but that the spirit which governs the little 
republic is fully as capable of taking note 
of new conditions and turning these to 
the best advantage, as in times long past it 
was capable of meeting the dangers that 
hemmed it around. Transport our black 
bee to California or Australia, and her 
habits will completely alter. Finding that 
summer is perpetual and flowers forever 
abundant, she will after one or two years 
be content to live from day to day, and 
gather sufficient honey and pollen for the 
day’s consumption; and, her thoughtful 
observation of these new features triumph- 
ing over hereditary experience, she will 
cease to make provision for the winter. 
1Biichner cites an analogous fact. In the Barbadoes, 
the bees whose hives are in the midst of the refineries, 
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