Excerpt from Natural History of the Honeybee, or Are Bees Reflex Machines? For the English edition some additional references have been made to the impor tant literature which has appeared on the subject since the publication of the German editions. On the whole, our knowledge has not materially changed since then. Modern animal psychology tends to dis credit Bethe 's reflex theory. Although the contradiction of this theory was taken as a basis. For this paper, nevertheless it is con cerned chiefly with the statement of experi mental contributions to the natural history of the honeybee; these contributions dis cuss the life and instincts of the community of bees, and incorporate some of the results gained by practical bee-keeping. May this little paper gain friends on the other side of the ocean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.