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" The grocer's name was Gardner — the distance is certainly above a mile, and through the most crowded part of London. The case of bees is referable to Instinct clearly. Honey-finders in America trace their nests by catching two bees, carrying them to... "
Familiar Lessons on Physiology: Designed for the Use of Children and Youth ... - Page 87
by Lydia Folger Fowler - 1847 - 95 pages
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Dissertations on Subjects of Science Connected with Natural Theology, Volume 1

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Natural theology - 1839 - 420 pages
...Honey-finders in America trace their nests by catching two bees, carrying them to a distance, and letting them fly. Each takes the straight line towards the nest or hive, and by noting these two lines, and finding where they intersect each other, the hive is found. Now the bee...
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Dissertations on Subjects of Science Connected with Natural Theology, Volume 1

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Natural theology - 1839 - 472 pages
...Honey-finders in America trace their nests by catching two bees, carrying them to a distance, and letting them fly. Each takes the straight line towards the nest or hive, and by noting these two lines, and finding where they intersect each other, the hive is found. Now the bee...
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Paley's Natural Theology: With Illustrative Notes, Volume 3

William Paley - Natural theology - 1839 - 418 pages
...Honey-finders in America trace their nests by catching two bees, carrying them to a distance, and letting them fly. Each takes the straight line towards the nest or hive, and by noting these two lines, and finding where they intersect each other, the hive is found. Now the bee...
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Dissertations on Subjects of Science Connected with Natural Theology, Volume 1

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Natural theology - 1839 - 418 pages
...Honey-finders in America trace their nests by catching two bees, carrying them to a distance, and letting them fly. Each takes the straight line towards the nest or hive, and by noting these two lines, and finding where they intersect each other, the hive is found. Now the bee...
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Dialogues on instinct; with analytical view of the researches on fossil ...

Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1844 - 270 pages
...Honey-finders in America trace their nests by catching two bees, carrying them to a distance, and letting them fly. Each takes the straight line towards the nest or hive, and by noting these two lines, and finding where they intersect each other, the hive is found. Now the bee...
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Dialogues on Instinct: With Analytical View of the Researches on Fossil ...

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Instinct - 1844 - 276 pages
...well ascertained ; there being a good deal of mystery and other quackery about the training of them. Each takes the straight line towards the nest or hive, and by noting these two lines, and finding where they intersect each other, the hive is found. Now the bee...
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Arthur's Magazine

Timothy Shay Arthur - 1845 - 908 pages
...America trace their nests by catching two bei-s, carrying them to a distan« and letting them Ну. Each takes the straight line towards the nest or hive, and by noting these two lines, and finding where they intersect each other, the hive is found. Now the bee...
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The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp]., Volume 3

Robert Kemp Philp - 432 pages
...which are very neatly and beautifully constructed. When they increase so much in number that the o'd hive is not large enough to contain them, they choose...observing these lines the hive may be found, in the direetion where they cross each other. Sometimes bees stray away and build their hives in the trunks...
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