Mr. debraw’s Difcoveries 
his brother-in-law, namely, that the queen-bee of a hive, 
befides the eggs which the depofits in the royal cells, 
might alfo have laid royal or female eggs either in the 
common cells, or indifcriminately throughout the dif- 
ferent parts of the hive. He further fuppoled, that in the 
pieces of brood-comb, which had been fuccefsfully em- 
ployed in the laft experiments for the produdtion of a 
queen, it had conftantly happened, that one or more of 
thefe royal eggs, or rather the worms proceeding from 
them, had been contained. 
But the force of his objection was removed foon after 
by the fame fuccefs having attended a number of other 
experiments which I lince made, an account of which 
would take up too much room here ; and this gentleman, 
together with Mr. schirach’s brother-in-law, was at laft 
brought to admit, that the working-bees are inverted with 
a power of railing a common fubjeft to the throne, when 
the community Hands in need of a queen ; and that ac- 
cordingly every worm of the hive is capable, under cer- 
tain circumftances, of becoming the mother of a genera- 
tion: that it owes its metamorpholis into a queen, partly 
to the extraordinary fize of the cell, and its particular 
pofition in it; but principally to a certain nourilhment 
appropriated to the occafion, and carefully adminiftered 
to it by the working-bees while it is in the worm-ftate, 
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