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Similarly Huber relates an observation of his own 
showing the duration of memory in bees. One autumn 
he put some honey in a window, which the bees visited in 
large numbers. During the winter the honey was taken 
away and the shutters shut. When they were again 
opened in the spring the bees returned, although there 
was no honey in the window. 
These two cases amply prove that the memory of bees 
is comparable with that of ants, which, as we have seen 
from analogous facts, also extends at least over a period 
of many months. 
Emotions . 
Sir John Lubbock’s experiment s on this head go to 
show that the social sympathies of bees are even less de- 
veloped than he found them to be in certain species of 
ants. Thus he says : — 
I have already mentioned with reference to the attachment 
which bees have been said to show for one another, that though 
I have repeatedly seen them lick a bee which had smeared her- 
self in honey, I never observed them show the slightest atten- 
tion to any of their comrades who had been drowned in water. 
Far, indeed, from having been able to discover any evidence of 
affection among them, they appear to be thoroughly callous and 
utterly indifferent to one another. As already mentioned, it 
was necessary for me occasionally to kill a bee ; but I never 
found that the others took the slightest notice. Thus on the 
11th of October I crushed a bee close to one which was feeding 
• — in fact, so close that their wings touched ; yet the survivor 
took no notice whatever of the death of her sister, but went on 
feeding with every appearance of composure and enjoyment, 
just as if nothing had happened. When the pressure was re- 
moved, she remained by the side of the corpse without the 
slightest appearance of apprehension, sorrow, or recognition. 
It was, of course, impossible for her to understand my reason 
for killing her companion ; yet neither did she feel the slightest 
emotion at her sister’s death, nor did she show any alarm lest 
the same fate should befall her also. In a second case exactly 
the same occurred. Again, I have several times, while a bee 
has been feeding, held a second bee by the leg close to her ; the 
prisoner, of course, struggled to escape, and buzzed as loudly as 
she could ; yet the selfish eater took no notice whatever. Sc 
