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* diftinguifli thofe armed with flings from thofe that had 



* none, which laft I might fufpe£l to be males. Of thefe I 

 ^ found fixty-feven, exa<Slly of the Hze of common bees, 



* yielding a little whitlfh liquor on being prefTed between 



* the fingers. I killed every one, and replaced the fwarm 

 ' in a glafs-hive, where they immediately applied again to the 

 ' work of making cells ; and, on the fourth or fifth day, ve- 



* ry early in the morning, I had the pleafure to fee the queen- 



< bee depofiting her eggs in thofe cells, which Ihe did by 



* placing the pofterlor part of her body in each of them. I 

 f continued to watch moft part of the enfuing days, but 



* could difcover nothing of what I had feen before. The 

 « eggs, after the fourth day, inftead of changing in the man- 



< ner of caterpillars, were found in the fame ftate they were 

 ^ in the firft day.' The next day about noon, the whole 

 fwarm forfook the hive, probably becaufe the animals per^ 

 ceived, that, without the affiftance of males, they were un- 

 qualified to multiply their fpecles. To fhow the necefilty 

 of the eggs being fecundated by the male influence, Mr. De- 

 braw relates an experiment ftill more decifive. 



< I took/ fays he, < the brood-comb, which, as I obferved 



< before, had not been impregnated ; I divided it into two 



< parts j one I placed under a glafs-bell. No. 1. with honey- 



* comb for the bees food ; I took care to leave a queen, but 

 f no drones, among the common bees I confined in it. The 

 « other piece of brood-comb I placed under another glafs- 

 « bell. No. 2. with a few drones, a queen, and a number of 

 ' common bees proportioned to the fize of the glafs. The 



< refult was, that, in the glafs No. 1. no impregnation hap- 



< pened ; the eggs remained in the fame ftate they were in 

 f when put into the glafs ; and, upon giving the bees their 

 f liberty on the feventh day, they all flew away, as was found 

 f to be the cafe in the former experiment : Whereas, in the 



* glafs No. 2. I faw, the very day after the bees had beea 



