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ing Bee is truly of no Sex at all, nor any- ways im- 
pl.oyed in the Production of that Species, it labours fo 
hard daily to provide with Food. 
But, whereas, in Animals, the Divifion of the Sexes 
'is almoft general ; and the Union of them in one 
Subject appears but in a few Inftances ; contrary wife, 
in Vegetables, almoft: all have the whole Apparatus 
of Generation in each Individual, whilft only a few 
Sorts feem to emulate Animals in what is analogous 
to the Divhion of them. 
I feem, perhaps, to wander too much from the 
Point firft-mentioned ; but as I am only offering 
loofe Hints, and fuch wild Conjectures as come in 
my Way, .hope to be excufed, though I yet hazard 
• another Obfervation, which is, That what appears 
chiefly to be new, in the Subject of this Memoir, is, 
that the Animal or Animals live and do well after 
their Separation, and that they are capable of re-pro- 
ducing fuch Parts as the Head and the Tail, which 
feemed effentially wanting. 
I fay, that the Animal's living and doing well again, 
-is what is chiefly new 5 for that an Animal, after Se- 
paration of fome of the principal Parts, feems for 
fome time to retain Life in each Part, muft have been 
obferved by every body * * 5 and though People gene- 
rally 
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* The Antients have taken Notice of this, and fome even feem to 
have had no doubt, that Life continued fome time in the Parts of a 
divided Infedh Ariftotlc obferves in the Fourth Book of his Hiftory 
of Animals, that almoft all Infe&s live fome time when pulled afunder, 
Wafps particularly j and that thofe live longeft, when fo feparated, which 
have a .long Body, and many Feet ; fo that the Scolopendra being cut 
afunder, one Part moves on forwards, and the other backwards. But a 
