i>8 Mr. debraw’s Difcoveries 
mer experiment: whereas in the glafs N° 2 . 1 faw, the 
very clay after the bees had been put under it, the impreg- 
nation of the eggs by the drones in every cell containing 
eggs; the bees did not leave their hive on receiving their 
liberty ; and, in the courfe of twenty days, every egg un- 
derwent all the above-mentioned neceffary changes, and 
formed a pretty numerous young colony, in which I was 
not a little ftartled to find two queens. 
Fully fatisfied concerningthe impregnation of the eggs 
by the males, I defifted for the prefent from any further 
experiments on that head, being exceedingly anxious to 
endeavour to account for the prefence of this new queen. 
I conjectured that either two queens, inftead of one, 
mull have been left among the bees I had placed under 
that glafs ; or elfe that the bees could, by fome particular 
means of their own, transform a common fubjedl into a 
queen; 
In order to put this to the tell, I repeated the experi- 
ment with fome variation. I got four glafs-hives blown 
flat, which I thought preferable to the bell-fhaped ones' 
I had ufed before, as> I could with thole better examine 
what was going forward., I took a large brood-comb 
from an old hive, and, after having divided it into feveral 
pieces, I put fome of them, containing eggs, worms, and 
nymphs, with food, viz. honey &c. under each of the 
glaflesj: 
