viii PREFACE, 



ful ; and confequently precludes the Natural 

 Hiftoryof Bees*, except in fome fmall de- 

 gree, as far as neceffary to their management. 



A few years fince^ warm difputes arofe 

 between different naturalifts and apiarian 

 focieties on the continent, relating to the 

 generation of bees, and the formation of 

 artificial fwarms r in confequence of fome 

 new and wonderful principles advanced by 

 a Mr. Schirach (fecretary of an apiarian 

 fociety),, in his treatife entituled " Hijfoire 

 Naturellc de la Regne des Abeilks" &c. tranf- 

 lated into French by J. Blaffiere, Hague, 

 printed 177 if. 



Counter-experiments were made by Need- 

 ham, Rheim, and others J, with refults of 

 an oppofite nature. 



It being incompatible with the defign of 

 this work to enter into details, or a formal 



* See a judicious book with that title, being a compi- 

 lation from the French, publifried by Knapton 1744. 



f This book I had the honour of having prefented 

 me by the late Earl of Marchmont. 



1 Bruffels Memoirs, vol. ii. 1780, prefented me by- 

 Thomas Dilks, Efq. to whom I render my thankful 

 acknowledgments - 



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