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CHARLES V.RILEY. Organized Insect Societies. Boston 

Transcript, January 12, 1892.

Editorial Abstract of the 5th lecture on Entomology by C.V. Riley, given  at the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., January 11, 1892. The economy and social life of the Honey Bee, the Ant and Social Wasps were explained as the basis for a discourse on the development of intellect and reason in insects, the author finding that as in man the higher intellectual development and Social organization have resulted from the long period of infantile dependence; so in these insects the long period of larval dependence may be considered the primary cause of their high intelligence and organization among insects.