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MEMOIR OF 
1670, containing his observations, &c. on “ car- 
trages,” described in the preceding account. 
“ I had the good luck to find a great many of 
your cartrages in a rotten willow, and by the 
shape of the maggot was most confident they 
would produce insects of the bee tribe ; and this 
I should have foretold you had I ever received 
those you sent me by Mr Le Hunt. But having 
only that one you sent me before, I was so fond 
and choice of it, that I durst not open it. I think 
that now I have found out the whole mystery ; 
and if you please to send me Dr King’s account, 
and one of your bees, I may perhaps add some- 
thing, and shall be glad to be instructed in any 
thing that hath escaped me. I desire one of the 
bees, because all mine being of a late hatch, and 
none of them yet turned into ‘ nymphas,’ (which 
is the word of art for the aurelia of the bee,) I 
fear I shall not see their last metamorphosis this 
year. In a garden, near a willow, I found where 
they get their leaves for their cartrages, which 
are not willow but rose leaves. 
“ At my coming home, I found the long 
expected cartrages, and some of the bees 
hatched ; so that now we want nothing to com- 
plete their history. I will trouble you only with 
those particulars that I found not mentioned in 
Dr King’s paper, to whom we owe the acknow- 
ledgement of these productions, and whose obser- 
vations concerning them our experience hath 
since confirmed. 
“ Mr Snell, an ingenious gentleman, brought 
