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self-denial in dragging itself back some distance, wounded and dyino to 
cover the bag of money with its body. (Hear, hear.) 
Dr. E. Haughton.— I f that story could be established as a real occur- 
rence, it would be of great value in our discussion, because the qualities 
shown by that dog far transcend anything within the region of mere instinct. 
With regard to the bees which have been referred to, Mr. Bow raised 
a question as to how a bee finds its way home, and what faculties the bee 
employs m the matter. I do not say that I can answer the question, but I 
can mention two instances which show the degree in which the bee possesses 
the power. I have read that in the country through which the Nile passes it 
is customary for the Egyptians to keep bees in hives on boats, and as soon as 
one honey-field is exhausted, the boats move down the stream, and a new 
field of flowers is reached, from which the bees can obtain their honey. So 
the boats goon from station to station as the flower-fields get exhausted- 
and in that way the Egyptians are enabled to keep many bees. The other 
instance Which I wished to quote is the way in which the people in the west 
of North America find bees’ nests. The bees often build in the trunks of 
old trees, and there are bee-hunters who obtain a living by cutting down 
ese trees and getting a quantity of honey, which sometimes represents a ten 
years store m a single trunk. The way they find out the nest is as follows : 
-The bee-hunter provides himself with three little pieces of elder-wood with 
the pith removed, and three stakes, and he then catches three bees and encloses 
one m each of his elder tubes. Opening one tube, he lets the first bee go, and 
watches the direction it takes, putting down a stake to mark it. He then lets 
another bee go, and puts down another stake, marking the direction ithas taken- 
and he knows that the nest ought to be found at the point of intersection in the 
hues which the bees have traversed. He next lets off the third bee to confirm 
™ W fl . K u teeS bel ° Dg t0 the same nest > the P° !nt intersection 
in their flight shows at once where the nest is ; because the bee does not fly 
about at all but, after taking one or two circles in the air, it starts off for 
ome m a direct line. That is a singular instance of the extraordinary 
nstmct of the bee; though I believe it is not an animal possessed of l 
° degree of “felligence. No doubt man, in common with the lower 
animals possesses the faculty of instinct. Suppose a bee flies to sting me 
before I have time to think whether it is a bee or not, I instinctively put up 
my hand to brush it away from my face or head. 1 P 
Mr. Row. — N ot if you are accustomed to them. 
Dr. Haughton.-No matter whether I am accustomed to them or not. In 
hat small act what a number of faculties have been employed, all of them 
. tmctive First, I heard the noise made by the bee ; then I distinguished 
went t°' Se T any 0th , er : then a messa « e conveying intelligence of the fact 
the mu, T 7 r'Tr ; and theu another message came back from the brain to 
the muscles of the arm to put that arm in motion in order to strike away the 
urtful insect. All these faculties are put in motion without my having 
reasoned on the matter. I have performed no act of reason ; I have not 
had time to do it ; the faculties employed are simply involuntary. 
