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III. Difcoveries on the Sex of Bees , explaining the Manner 
in which their Species is propagated’, with an Account 
of the Utility that may be derived from thofe Difcoveries 
by the adlual Application of them to Practice. By Mr. 
John Debra w, Apothecary to Addenbrook’s Hof pit al at 
Cambridge, and Member of an Oeconomical Society in 
the Principality 0/ Liege in Weftphalia. Communicated 
by the Rev. Nevil Mafkelyne, B, D. F. R. S. and AJlro- 
nomer Royal. 
Read Nov. 21, r | ' 1 H E republic of bees has at all times- 
gained uni verbal efteem and admi- 
ration : their culture, an object fo worthy of our atten- 
tion, has attracted and ftill does engage that of many of 
the learned, and has arrived at a confiderable degree of 
improvement of late years; but their mode of propa- 
gating their fpecies teems to this day to have baffled the 
ingenuity of ages in their attempts to difeover it. The 
moil; fkilful naturalifts have been ftrangely milled in 
their opinion, that the bees, as well as the other tribes 
of animals, are perpetuated by copulation ; though they 
acknowledge 
