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As foon as a Queen Ant has laid any oi her 
jJggSj under a Glafs you may ooierve fevera* of 
her Attendants begin to exprefs their Fonanefs* 
They will, in the moft foft, and gentle Manner^ 
take them in their Forceps, and carry them 
to an Apartment, or lay them together in final! 
Clufters. 
In * July^ you may find, in moft Colonies, 
Parcels of new-laid Eggs ; and the Queens Bodies 
diminifhed in Proportion. Upon examining them 
with aMicrofcope,they wiiftin all Particulars, anfwef 
to thofe you fball take from a Queen by Direc¬ 
tion ; and exadfly of the fame Contexture are the 
Eggs provided for by the common Ants. 
I have been the inore circumftantial in this 
Point, in order to remove a Miftake in f Sir Ed¬ 
ward Kings Account of Ants, published in the 
Philofophical Tranfadions. As he was not aware 
* Thefe Experiments have been generally confined 
to the common Yellow, and fmall Black Colonies * 
but from many Circumftances, it appears that the Pro- 
cefs of the others is analogous to it. 
f Lo^wthorf s Abridgment of the Philof, Tranfa< 3 . 
V Oh, z> p. 7. 
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