‘Of theit Sex, 8. 68 
_ Anda as we are confident ‘that the King, conn may be 
eat diftinguithed Hom the Drones by his fize and co- 
Jour, i isa female, we a8 fay that the Drones are males. 
‘Upon whieh fappofi ition, the cylindrical bodies mention- 
ed befote may ferve for tefticles, i. ¢. tio little ones, 
and two farger for feminal veflels, where thé feminal 
fubltance is is brought to perfection ; but T have not beer 
able hitherto to difcover in what mariner the impregna® 
‘tion i Is brought : about. 
‘He afterwards adds, from fome obférvations made at 
different times, it hath been conjeCtured, that Drones 
-contribute nothing at all to the generation of Bees< 
How inconfiftent is this writer with himfelf, con- 
fidently affirming the Drones to be the males, provided 
with four tefticles, (inftead of two) for perpetuating the- 
‘fpecies, and yet ¢ contribute nothing to generation ? 
But a a greater blunder than this, (which the attentive 
“reader cannot b ‘but obferve,) is he guilty of, in faying the 
“King i. a female, q: d. the king i is a Queen, or the male 
is a tomate ; or ‘that the fame individual Bee is of both © 
_ tenes, male and | female. Grofs notorious abfurdity, ahd 
an abfolute impofibility ! ! ‘not to be forgiven in a pro#_ 
“feflor of one of our learned and famous univerfities, ahd 
ia fellow of the royal fociety.* | 
But the profeffor is not alone, I find others alfo erring 
“herein ; _ particularly Mr, Purchasy who not only inferts 
“the fovereign or _governour to be a Queen ; 3, but al- 
fo that fhe injects a {permatic fubftance, ‘thick like 
E -“ cream, 
_ *Bradley’ 3 Treatife of Hufbandry, &c, and Profefor of Botany, Vols is 
P 25%, 
