. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. February'10, 1887.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 57 1860, in Lis paper, On certain Sensor;/ Organs in Insects hitherto undescribed, states ' that there is every reason to think that the antennal organs are those of This view he also expresses in The Honey See, published by him in conjunction with J. Samuelson. Again, in 1878, we find V. Graber writing and holding a similar view in Vber neue, otocystenartige Sinnesorgane der In- secten ; and also Paolo Mayer, Sopra certi organi di senso nelle Antenne dei Ditferi in 1878. That they are
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. February'10, 1887.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 57 1860, in Lis paper, On certain Sensor;/ Organs in Insects hitherto undescribed, states ' that there is every reason to think that the antennal organs are those of This view he also expresses in The Honey See, published by him in conjunction with J. Samuelson. Again, in 1878, we find V. Graber writing and holding a similar view in Vber neue, otocystenartige Sinnesorgane der In- secten ; and also Paolo Mayer, Sopra certi organi di senso nelle Antenne dei Ditferi in 1878. That they are organs of hearing is by no means proved, and Mr. Cheshire's is only an opinion which adds nothing to what is already known. It would be interesting if Mr. Grimshaw would try his experiments with a micro- phone on bees, for Sir John Lubbock, who had an ex- tremely sensitive microphone sent him by Professor Bell and attached it to the under side of one of his ants' nests, could distinguish nothing but the ants walking about. But he says,' It is, however, far from improbable that ants may produce sounds entirely beyond our range of hearing. Indeed, it is not impossible that insects may possess senses or sensations of which we can no more form an idea than we should have been able to conceive red or green if the human race had been blind. The human ear is sensitive to vibrations reaching at the out- side to 38,000 in a second. The sensation of red is pro- duced when 470 millions of millions of vibrations enter the eye in a similar time; but between these two numbers vibrations produce on us only the sensation of heat; we have no special organs of sense adapted to them. There is, however, no reason in the nature of things why this should be the case with animals, and the problematical organs possessed by many of the lower forms may have relation to sensations which we do not perceive.' He further describes structures which ho only says' may very probably be auditory organs.' That b
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