Bale of a substance called Gez oy Manna, and the 
Insect producing wu. 
By Masor Gevernaz FHOMAS HARDWICK, F.R. LL. & A. 5S. 
Vick PRESIDENT. 
Read 17th June, 1820. 
oT BEG to lay before the Asiatic Society some information upen a 
subject which forms a paper in the first volume of the transactions of the 
Bombay Literary Society. Captain KEpwarp Freperick, of the Bombay 
Establishment, has given his remarks on a substance called Gez or Manna, 
found in Persia and Armenia,—but the doubt of authors who have 
written upon, the same subject, seems by no means cleared up, as to 
whether this substance be the produce of an animal, or whether it be a 
vegetable gums and Captain Freperick concludes his paper with ree 
marking that *° at some future period it may be proved to be the pro- 
s¢ duction of the Aphis tribe, instead of vegetable gum,’’—The celebrated 
French Entomologist Geoffroy, has already attributed to a species of 
Chermes, the property of producing both in the Larva and Pupa state, 
a sugary substance of a white colour, resembling Manna3$ and it ts in Cones 
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