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 readilyenough. Other experiments with a microphone were with- 
out results. Everyone knows that bees when swarming are popu- 
larly, and have been ever since the time of Aristotle, supposed to 
_ beinfluenced by clanging-kettles, &c. Experienced apiarists are 
= how disposed to doubt whether the noise has really any effect; 
_ but Sir John suggests that even if it has, with reference to which 
he no opinion, it is possible that what the bees hear are 
ot the loud, low sounds, but the higher overtones at the verge of 
: or beyond our range of hearing. As regards the industry of wasps, 
he timeda bee and a wasp, for each of which he provided a store 
of honey, and he found that the wasp began earlier in the morn- 
_ ing (at four a. m.), and worked on later in the day. He did not, 
however, quote this as proving greater industry on the part of the 
abnormal mental action observed in many persons, and classi- 
maik -He concludes an interesting discussion by asserting as 
i sley has done before him, that the world owes nearly all 
'mportant Innovations to persons whose minds occupy this 
Position. He includes in this class original thinkers, 
discoverers and inventors. He confirms the truth of 
ge of Pope: 
___ ® Great wit to madness sure is near allied, 
And thin partitions do their realms divide.” 
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