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far, therefore, from being at all affectionate, I doubt whether 
bees are in the least fond of one another. 
Reaumur, however ( 6 Insects/ vol. v., p. 265), nar- 
rates a case in which a hive-bee was partly drowned and 
so rendered insensible ; the others in the hive carefully 
licked and otherwise tended her till she recovered. This 
seems to show that bees, like ants, are more apt to have 
their sympathies aroused by the sight of ailing or injured 
companions than by that of healthy companions in distress ; 
but Sir John Lubbock’s observations above quoted go to 
prove that even in this case display of sympathy is cer- 
tainly not the rule. 
Powers of Communication . 
Huber says that when one wasp finds a store of honey 
6 it returns to its nest, and brings off in a short time a 
hundred other wasps ; ’ and this statement is confirmed 
by Dujardin, who witnessed a somewhat similar perform- 
ance in the case of bees — the individual which first found 
a concealed store informing other individuals of the fact, 
and so on till numberless individuals had found it. 
Although the systematic experiments of Sir John 
Lubbock have not tended to confirm these observations 
with regard to bees and wasps, we must not too readily allow 
his negative results to discredit these positive observations 
• — more especially as we have seen that his later experi- 
ments have fully confirmed the opinion of these previous 
authors with respect to ants. His experiments on bees 
and wasps consisted in exposing honey in a hidden situa- 
tion, marking a bee or wasp that came to it, and observing 
whether it afterwards brought any companions to share 
the booty. He found that although the same insect 
would return over and over again, strangers came so 
rarely that their visits could only be attributed to acci- 
dental and independent discovery. Only if the honey 
were in an exposed situation, where the insects could see 
one another feeding, would one follow the other to the 
food. 
But we have the more reason not to accept unreservedly 
