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fince we fee bees frequently come out of 

 flowers ioaded with their duft, and ap- 

 parently carrying it to their hives, it is 

 not improbable that they feed on it. For, 

 if Mr GeofFroy's experiments can be de- 

 pended on *, it cannot be the materia of 

 wax, without being digefted and prepared 

 in the infecfl ; and, how many other in- 

 fects may live on it, I cannot tell. 



58. But, if it be infilled on, that its 

 primary ufe muft refpedl the plant itfelf ; 

 perhaps Caefalpinus may be in the right, 

 with relation to the plants, whereof fome, 

 in the fame fpccies, carry (lamina, and 

 others the feed f > and Malpighius J, and 

 Tournefort, with relation to fuch as bear 

 both on the fame individual plant, viz. 

 That it carries off what is excremen- 



titious, 



«« the courfe of God's general providence, to which 

 •• his fpecial or particular providence, about this or that 

 «' mere animal, ought, in reafon, to be fubordinatcd." 

 Vid. Boyle's Works, vol. 4. ?• 548. 



* Vid. Mem. acad. an. 17 1 1. 



f Vid. fupra. No, 6^ 



% Vid. p. 70. 



