‘I repeatedly stationed five or six of my children, each close to a buzzing place, and told the one farthest away to shout as soon a bee buzzed there: “here is a bee”, and so on with the other children one after another, the words “here is a bee” were passed on from child to child without interruption, until the bees reached the buzzing place where I myself was standing.’

Enclosure of letter from Darwin to Hermann Müller, [before 5 May 1872]

Image reference: James Duncan. The natural history of bees: comprehending the uses and economical management of the British and foreign honey-bee; together with the known wild species,
plate 14. (CUL S384.d.84.38)

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