Their Method of Generation, gs 
gredients (carefully united) anfwer the end I am pleading 
for ; being fo admirably adapted to the growth and aug- 
mentation of the young, till fuch time as they quit their 
cells, and begin to live after another manner; having 
other means of fubfiftence, and a power to feed them- 
felves. 
- Moreover, to remove or abate the force of that, or 
any other fuch objection, I muft acquaint the reader, 
after fome ftocks have for feveral weeks conveyed lef- 
fer or larger quantities of the abovefaid matter into their 
hives ; I have very ftri¢tly examined, before any young, 
(or very few if any) had left their places of retreat, (i. ¢. 
. their matrixes ;) but nothing of it was to be found alone. 
To what other purpofe then can it be appropriated ? 
there being no young, or next to none, to feed upon it. 
To me it appears defigned purely as matter of nutri- 
tion to the Fetus in the cells ; and no otherwife employ- 
ed. May we not from the whole juftly conclude, it can 
be of no other fervice, than ta nourifh the young. 
If it is not thus employed, and converted to this ufe a- 
lone, I would gladly learn where and how it is difpofed 
of, feeing nothing of it is at that time to be feen i in the 
fame form it was carried i in; but penny mingled in 
the breeding cells. 
_ With this the Door fays, the Bees feed their ae 
If he means the young | in. the cells, before they break 
thro’ the Tat latuine: he fays the fame thing with Rufden, 
who oft affirms this, mixtitie is put into. thofe cells, 
‘wherein is the ege or fperm only as matter of nutrition. 
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