1 70 SALMONIA. 



In the geometrical construction of their cells, 

 the secretion of wax from their bodies, the 

 collecting their food, and the care of the brood, 

 there is a series of results which it requires 

 a strong reason to follow, and which are the 

 consequences of invariable instincts. Bees, 

 since they have been noticed by naturalists, 

 have the same habits, and, as it is probable' 

 that there have been many thousand of genera- 

 tions since the creation, it is evident, that the 

 instincts of the first bees have been hereditary 

 and invariable in their offspring ; and it can- 

 not be doubted, that they do now, as they did 

 four thousand years ago, make some cells in 

 combs larger than others for the purpose of 

 containing the eggs and future grubs of drones, 

 that are to be produced by a grub, which 

 they are educating for a queen bee ; and that 

 these cells are connected with the common cells 

 by a series, in which the most exact geome- 

 trical lav/s of transition are observed. An 

 eminent philosopher has deduced an argument 

 in favour of the existence of Deity from the 

 analogy of the universe to a piece of me- 

 chanism, which could only be the work of an 



