ros THE HISTORY OF BEES, 
» That fuch quantities of wax are depofited in the emp~ 
ty cells, I never, thro’ fo long an acquaintance with 
Bees, could obferve, and’‘know itis a great miflake, nei- 
ther is the wax, as gathered by the Bees, of different 
colours, but always white, and the flighteft examinati- 
on would have been fufficient to have convinced him 
he was in an error; nay the diverfity of the colours a- 
lone, if attended to, would have done it. ; 
And as there i is fo manifeft and great a contrariety 1 in 
nature between dult and wax, it muft be an unpardona- 
ble weaknefs in fuch a profeffor thus to confound them. 
That the wax placed in the cells fhould be of fuch vari- 
ous colours ; and immediately (when formed into combs) 
white, i is very ftrange and ynaccountable. 
Tn this article we alfo find a modern French author | 
guilty of the fame error, telling us they always keep a 
confiderable ftock of this in referve, collect it in their 
hair, with which their bodies are plentifully prea o- 
ver, anditis agreeable to fee them roll in the yellow duft, 
which falls from the chives to the bottom of the flow- 
ers, and then return invefted with thofe grains, ‘They 
alfo, according to him, carry away the little particles of 
it with their j Jaws and fore- feet. 
Thefe colle€tors at their return have proper affiftance 
and attendants ready at the hi ive: door, on purpofe to eafe 
them of their loads, as foon as they arrive ; whereas the 
former repair to the field again, in order to colle& new 
ftore, while thofe which helped to unload, convey their 
charge into the general magazine ; » yet fome of the other 
Bone 
convey 
