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Excerpt from Wasp Studies Afield If any excuse were needed for welcoming another work in addition to the nearly three hundred books and articles that have been published on the habits of the solitary wasps, it would suffice to point to the fact that no Other group of insects has so fascinated and bafi'led the student of animal behavior, the psychologist and the philosopher. When among contemporary generalizers we find an eminent psychologist, William mcdougall, claiming for the solitary wasps a degree of intelligence which (with the doubtful exception of the higher mammals) approaches most nearly to the human, and the illustrious Bergson using the same insects as paradigms of instinct in the sense of intuition as contrasted with intelligence, there is surely need of a renewed presentation of facts already established, of the publication of new observations and of a serious attempt at dispassionate interpretation like that made in the present volume. 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.