. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 142 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [April 11, 1901. &c., without cost were hampered by a paltry sum of £40 for educational purposes. Mr. Baker agreed to ask the County Council to give a grant of £60 to the Association, and pay £40 at the commencement of the season, as that was necessary to enable the secretary to meet current expenses. It was resolved, that a grant of £3 be given to the Redruth Exhibition, and Mr. Polwhele was empowered to make what grant he thought desirable to local shows.—(Communicated.) A SCENT ORGAN IN THE BEE. THE SCEN
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 142 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [April 11, 1901. &c., without cost were hampered by a paltry sum of £40 for educational purposes. Mr. Baker agreed to ask the County Council to give a grant of £60 to the Association, and pay £40 at the commencement of the season, as that was necessary to enable the secretary to meet current expenses. It was resolved, that a grant of £3 be given to the Redruth Exhibition, and Mr. Polwhele was empowered to make what grant he thought desirable to local shows.—(Communicated.) A SCENT ORGAN IN THE BEE. THE SCENT PRODUCED FORMS A MEANS OP COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE MEMBERS OP A SWARM OR COLONY. By F. W. L, Sladen. Last summer I made a number of experi- ments with some of the burrowing species of humble-bees, keeping them in artificial nests and taking notes as to the way they behaved from day to day. One nest of Bombus terrestris I kept under close observa- tion for about three months. Among several interesting things I noticed, one that struck me as being especially remarkable was that I was able to find no evidence that these bees were able to perceive ordinary sounds, but rather the reverse. The sense of smell, on the contrary, seemed to be very acute, and as humble-bees do not ordinarily emit sounds in their nests, neither can they see (the nest being in darkness underground), it seemed to me likely that they must distinguish objects and one another in the nest entirely by the senses of smell and touch, unless they possess some other sense which is unknown to us. In many of my experiments I have been surprised to notice how keen the sense of smell seems to be in these humble-bees. I was led to turn my attention to this subject in honey-bees. Many writers on bees state positively that honey-bees can hear, but I have not yet found any certain proof of this. Cheshire, in " Bees and Bee-keeping," vol. i., pages( 107 and 108, mentions the "joyful hum " and the
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