POSTSCRIPT, 



J U S T as my maiiufcript was f eady for 

 the prefs, I became acquainted with aTreatife, 

 recently publifhed by Mr. James Bonner^ 

 of Edinburgh, purporting to be " A New 

 " Plan for f peed ily increafing the Number of 

 " Bee-Hives in Scotland" &c. Upon a 

 careful perufal, feveral paffages in that work 

 feemed worthy of notice ; but not to alter 

 the body of my own, I here give them fepa- 

 rate, with a few brief remarks. 



Mr. Bonner is a ftickler for the Schirachean 

 doctrine of raifmg young queen bees at plea- 

 fure, in order to form artificial fw arms -, and 

 oppofes thofe of a contrary opinion, though 

 fortified by numerous experiments of re- 

 fpe&able naturalifb, at home and in Ger- 

 many, feveral years after thofe of Schirach. 



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