86 MEMOIR OF 



1670, containing his observations, &c. on " car- 

 trages," described in the preceding account. 



" I had the good luck to find a great many of 

 your cartrages in a rotten willow, and by the 

 shape of the maggot was most confident they 

 would produce insects of the bee tribe ; and this 

 I should have foretold you had I ever received 

 those you sent me by Mr Le Hunt. But having' 

 only that one you sent me before, I was so fond 

 and choice of it, that I durst not open it. I think 

 that now I have found out the whole mystery ; 

 and if you please to send me Dr King's account, 

 and one of your bees, I may perhaps add some- 

 thing, and shall be glad to be instructed in any 

 thing that hath escaped me. I desire one of the 

 bees, because all mine being of a late hatch, and 

 none of them yet turned into * nymphas,' (which 

 is the word of art for the aurelia of the bee,) I 

 fear I shall not see their last metamorphosis this 

 year. In a garden, near a willow, I found where 

 they get their leaves for their cartrages, which 

 are riot willow but rose leaves. 



" At my coming home, I found the long 

 expected cartrages, and some of the bees 

 hatched ; so that now we want nothing to com- 

 plete their history. I will trouble you only with 

 those particulars that I found not mentioned in 

 Dr King's paper, to whom we owe the acknow- 

 ledgement of these productions, and whose obser- 

 vations concerning them our experience hath 

 since confirmed. 



" Mr Snell, an ingenious gentleman, brought 



