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more such globules ; all which make up at last one great knob on the stalk, a 

 hundred times thicker than the stalk itself. And this knob indeed consists of 

 nothing else than of many small roundish knobs, which being multiplied, the 

 large knob begins to burst asunder, and then represents a kind of blossoms with 

 leaves. 



2. The sting of a bee I find of a different form than has been described by 

 others. I have observed in it two other stings, that are lodged within the thick- 

 ness of the first sting, each having its peculiar sheath. 



3. Further, I observe, on the head of a bee before, two artus or limbs with 

 teeth, which I call scrapers, conceiving them to be the organs with which the 

 bee scrapes the waxy substance from the plant. Besides, 1 find two other limbs, 

 each having two joints, which I call arms, with which I believe this insect per- 

 forms its work and makes the combs. There is also a little body which I call 

 the wiper, being rough, and exceeding the other limbs in thickness and length, 

 by which I am apt to believe the bee wipes the honey substance from the plant. 

 All which five limbs the bee, when at work, lays in a curious manner close under 

 her head, in very good order. 



4. As to the eye of the bee, which I have taken out of the head, exposing its 

 innermost part to the microscope; I find, that the bee receives her light just 

 with the same shadow as we see the honey-combs : whence I collect, that the 

 bee works not by art or knowledge, but only after the pattern of the light re- 

 ceived in the eye. 



5. In a louse I observe indeed, as others have done, a short tapering nose 

 with a hole in it, out of which that insect, when it will draw food, thrusts its 

 sting, which, to my eye, was at least five and twenty times less than one single 

 hair. But I find the head every where else very close round about, and without 

 any such sutures as some have represented it. The skin of the head is rough, 

 resembling a skin that has many dents in it. In the two horns I find five joints, 

 others having marked but four. One claw of her foot is of the structure of that 

 of an eagle, but the other of the same foot stands out straight and is very 

 small; and between these two claws there is a raised part or knob, the better to 

 clasp and hold fast the hair. 



Extract of a Letter from M. Denys, at Paris, announcing an Admirable Liquor 

 instantly Stopping the Blood of Arteries pricked or cut, without any Suppura" 

 tion, or ivithout leaving any Scar or Cicatrice. N° 94, p. 603Q, 



We are now busy, by the king's order, in making experiments, whence the 

 world is likely to receive great benefit. There has been found out here an admi- 



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