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. case in Terra del Fuego where the natives were frequently 
forced, through stress of weather and scanty food supply, to eat 
their old women. J 
POWERS OF COMMUNICATION. 
Having exposed numbers of wasp larvae (to the use of which 
as food wasps are extremely partial) we found that although a 
number came to them and went backward and forward a good 
many times they never announced their discovery in such a man¬ 
ner as to induce others to return with them. We tried this ex¬ 
periment repeatedly but obtained no evidence to support Huber s 
statement that when one wasp finds a store of food it returns to 
the hive and shortly brings back a large number of friends. Tak¬ 
ing into consideration the feeding habits of wasps and bees &nd 
the improbability of their often finding any large store of food^ 
more evidence seems necessary to prove that they possess any 
extended powers of communication in relation to their food sup¬ 
ply. * 
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. 
In his work on Animal Intelligence, Romanes notes an obser¬ 
vation by the Rev. Mr. J. W. Mossman to the effect that when a 
wasp must come out of a narrow opening it will come sting fore¬ 
most, not to expose its head unnecessarily. In our experiments 
on the sense of direction, we frequently carried caged wasps to a 
Stance and then allowed them to depart thiough a narrow 
aperture, sometimes inserting the end of a glass tube into an 
opening cut in the side of the cage, and sometimes letting thdm 
pass through this hole without using the tube. We liberated at 
Joney and then set it free, and it soon returns with^ ^_ 
aud set free from different points, and then the hi'e 1 G f this paper lias taken 
ton. (See Animal Intelligence page loB.) One of tb ,, ieril California and in Ken- 
partin bee-hunts on many different occasions both im ■ marked for future occasions; 
tucky. often the trees were fouud by accident and tv • w bieb was carried about 
frequently, however, bees were allowed to'feed fiom *£j e when they started from 
r, >in place to place, and were then followed as „ ^IJStinned bv Mr. Emery, an occa- 
bome, ami thus, by the system of triangulation mei sto ‘ r ies to prove that bees 
‘'ioual hive was fouud. The bee-hunters told a ig®** J,er We uever heard, during 
'vere very intelligent, and that they conversed freely JJgg. of hunting which took into 
the year that we lived among bee-hunters, °^ aI, V * v 
Account their ability to communicate with one anotner. 
