82 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1073. 



inch square; with a shutter that slides in a groove to cover them in winter. It 

 has two iron handles with joints, to be placed about the middle, if there be no 

 windows on the sides where they are ; or above them if there be. At top it 

 has a crease all round it, about half an inch in depth on the outside, and 1 ^ inch 

 high ; and another on the inside at the bottom, which serves to fix them when 

 set upon one another. It has also a hole about two inches square, on one side 

 at bottom, by which the knife is put in to cut the bees work, that passes 

 through the hole from one bee-house into another, as they work downwards 

 into the empty house; which has a sliding shutter to cover it. Within the bee- 

 house there is a square frame, made of 4 posts joined at top, at bottom, and in 

 the middle, with 4 sticks for the bees to fasten their work upon ; which though 

 they will serve, yet it may be securer to have two more added in each of their 

 places crossing the frame, either from the middle of the opposite side-sticks, or 

 from angles where the posts are placed. 



This manner of bee-house is useful for preventing the swarming of bees. 

 For when the bee-house wants room for the young bees, they swarm, and fly 

 away to find a house for themselves, which is prevented by placing an empty 

 one made thus, under the full one, having the door at top open, that they may 

 work downwards into it. And when both are full, the bees will all be in the 

 lowest house; and then, to get the honey and wax without destroying or trou- 

 bling the bees, with a thin long knife, broad at the end, and sharp on both 

 sides, the bees work is to be cut as low as can be, and the uppermost bee- house 

 to be lifted off by the handles, and being reversed, the screws are to be taken 

 out, and then the frame with all the bees work upon it will easily slip out ; after 

 which, the empty bee-house may be set under the other, if need be, and the 

 uppermost having the square hole above covered with the shutter, some other 

 cover may be set over it to keep the bees from the injuries of the weather. And 

 if this separation be made in the spring or summer, the bees will like their new 

 house the better that it has been used before. 



Account of Further Experiments concerning the Wonderful Ejects of the Blood- 

 Staunching Liquor. N° 96, p. 6078. 



The King having in his presence caused some considerable experiments to be 

 made with the new blood-stopping liquor on brutes, and there remaining yet 

 some persons here doubting, whether it would as well succeed on men; his 

 Majesty gave order to his chirurgeons to go and see in the hospitals, whether 

 there were not some wounded persons whose blood had need to be stopped.. 

 Hereupon there were found two very fit patients in the hospital of St. Thomas. 

 The first was a woman labouring under an inveterate scurvy and the King's evil. 



