Since my yesterday's posting on the topic of the importance of
odor by searching bees, R. Rosin brought to my attention some points
of clarification:

1)  I failed to mention a 186 page publication by von Frisch on the
recruitment of honey bees to food sources: (1923, Ueber die "Sprache"
der Bienen).

2)  The 1937 article in English by von Frisch first appeared in
SCIENCE PROGRESS, based upon a talk he had given at the University of
London.  Rosin came across a republication of that article in the
1938 Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian
Institution (published in 939).

3)  Rosin stumbled onto that article at the New York University
library, not at the New York public library, as posted in my last
message.

4)  Millions have been spent this past half century on studies of the
waggle dance maneuver without, it seems to me, any real benefit to
beekeepers.  Lately, by contrast, relatively meager funds have been
allocated toward the most pressing problems that beekeepers face.

                                                Adrian
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