CHAPTER XXIII. BEE-STINGS. Gentleness necessary in Manipulation--Causes of Irritation of Bees--Examination of Stocks--Treatment of Stings-- Remedies--Effects of Stings--Inoculation--Bee Dress-- Smoke and its Uses. 221-228 CHAPTER XXIV. PASSIONS AND EMOTIONS OF BEES. Affection for Queen and Brood--Recognition of Friends and Strangers--Fear--Anger--Covetousness--Benevolence-- Remorse--Hope--Instinctive or Sense-action. 229-233 CHAPTER XXV. INTELLECT AND INSTINCT IN BEES. Intellect in Man and Animals as Related to Immortality-- Memory--Judgment--Instances of Attention--Prevision-- Provision--Instinct--Manifestations--Bearing on Evolution. 234-243 CHAPTER XXVI. BEES IN RELATION TO FLOWERS. Connection of Plant-life and Insect-life--Reproduction of Flowers--Intervention of Insects--Hermaphrodite Flowers --Cross-fertilisation--Cucumbers, Melons, &c.--Poplars --Firs--Epilobium or Willow Herb--Cincerarias--Darwin's Experiments--Nasturtium--Foxglove--Figwort--Salvia-- Heath--Strawberry, Raspberry, and Blackberry--Apple and Pear--Altruism of Bees. 244-258 CHAPTER XXVII. SUPERSTITIONS CONNECTED WITH BEES. Superstitions likely to gather around Bees--Unlucky to Buy Bees--Ill Omen for a Swarm to Settle on a Dry Stick-- "Have the Bees been told?"--Turning Hives on the Death of the Owner--Probable Origin of these Errors. 259-267 CHAPTER XXVIII. THE PROFITS OF BEE-KEEPING. Methods of Honey-taking--Straw Caps--Bell-Glasses-- Sections--Frames--Extractors--Run Honey--Average Returns of Hives. 268-272 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Fig. PAGE Comb, Showing Different Kinds of Cells _Frontispiece_ 1. Eggs and Larva of Bees 12 2. Larvæ 13 3. Sealed Cells 14 4. _a_, Larva full grown, viewed sideways, _b_, Larva preparing for Pupa state 15 5. Worker Larva and Pupa in Comb 16 6. The Queen of the Hive 19