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honey on one of the bunches of flowers, and it was eagerly 
sucked by the bees ; two kept continually returning till past 
five in the evening. 
One day when I came home in the afternoon I found that 
at least a hundred bees had got into my room through the pos- 
tern and were on the window, yet not one was attracted by an 
open jar of honey which stood in a shady corner about 3 feet 
6 inches from the window. 
One day (29th April, 1872) I placed a saucer of honey close 
to some forget-me-nots, on which bees were numerous and 
busy; yet from 10 a.m. till 6 only one bee went to the honey. 
I put some honey in a hollow in the garden wall opposite 
the hives at 10.30 (this wail is about five feet high and four 
feet from the hives) ; yet the bees did not find it during the 
whole day. 
On the 30th March, 1873, a fine sunshiny day, when the 
bees were very actiye, I placed a glass containing honey at 9 in 
the morning on the wall in front of the hives ; but not a single 
bee went to the honey the whole day. On April 20 I tried the 
same experiment, with the same result. 
September 19. — At 9.30 I placed some honey in a glass 
about four feet from and just in front of the hive ; but during 
the whole day not a bee observed it. 
As it then occurred to me that it might be suggested that 
there was something about this honey which rendered it unat- 
tractive to the bees, on a following day I placed it again on the 
top of the wall for three hours, during which not a single bee 
came, and then moved it close to the alighting-board of the 
hive. It remained unnoticed for a quarter of an hour, when 
two bees observed it ; and others soon followed in considerable 
numbers. . . . On the whole, wasps seem to me more clever in 
finding their way than bees. I tried wasps with the glass 
mentioned on p. 124 [i.e. the bell-jar], but they had no diffi- 
culty in finding their way out. 
We shall now conclude this resume of Sir John 
Lubbock’s observations by quoting two other passages 
bearing on the general intelligence of bees and wasps : — 
The following fact struck me as rather remarkable. The 
wasp already mentioned at the foot of p. 135 one day smeared 
her wings with syrup, so that she could not fly. When this 
happened to a bee, it was only necessary to carry her to the 
alighting-board, when she was soon cleaned by her comrades. 
But I did not know where this wasp’s nest was, and therefore 
