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INTRODUCTION. 
HE frft Tecrer of the OGa- 
- gonal Bee-Boxes, which we 
now and-then meet with in the Gar- 
dens of the Curious, was Yohn Gedde, 
Efg. . He publifhed his Invention, in 
the Year 1675, having obtained the 
King’s Patent for the fame; and be- 
caufe the Recommendation of the 
Royal Society was thought neceflary 
to give Credit to his Scheme, which, 
das was not to be procured by Fees 
he ventured to draw up a formal Ap- 
probation in their Name, and prefix it 
to his Book, without their Authority. 
Thefe Boxes appear, at firft Sight, to 
be very expenfive and unweildy: and 
every one, I believe, who has experi- 
enced them, has found, to his Coft, 
that they anfwer only ove of the Find 
the 
