Abstract
(1) PROF. WHEELER'S book represents half-a-dozen lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston during February and March 1922, and after appearing in the Scientific Monthly, they are reproduced with only slight changes. The prevalent conception of social insects is mainly derived from what is known concerning the hive bee and ants. It will, therefore, perhaps come as a revelation to many to learn how widely spread social organisation is among that class of animals. Such an organisation, at least incipiently analogous to our own, has arisen de nova, Prof. Wheeler tells us, in some twenty-four different groups of insects comprised in five very different orders.
(1) Social Life among the Insects.
Prof. W. M. Wheeler. Pp. vii + 375. (London, Bombay and Sydney: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1923.) 16s. net.
(2) The Mystery of the Hive.
Eugène Evrard. Translated by Bernard Miall. Pp. iv + 369. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1923.) 7s. 6d. net.
(3) Adventures among Bees.
Herbert Mace. Pp. 144 + 16 plates. (London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d.) 4s. 6d. net.
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I., A. (1) Social Life among the Insects (2) The Mystery of the Hive (3) Adventures among Bees. Nature 113, 452–453 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113452a0
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