Of their Sex, &c. 63 
And as we are confident that the King, who may be 
eafily diftinguifhed from the Drones by his fize and ‘co= 
lour, is a female, we may fay that the Drones are males, 
Upon which fuppofition, the cylindrical bodies mention- 
ed before may ferve for teflicles, 2. e, two little ones, 
and two larger for feminal veffels, where the feminal 
fubftance is brought to perfection; but I have not been 
able hitherto to difcover in what manner the impregna- 
tion is brought about. | 
He afterwards adds, from fome obfervations made at 
different times, it hath been conjectured, that Drones 
contribute nothing at all to the generation of Bees. 
How inconfiftent is this writer with himfelf, con« 
fidently affirming the Drones to be the males, provided 
_ with four tefticles (inftead of two) for perpetuating the 
{pecies, and yet contribute nothing to generation? | 
But a greater blunder than this, (which the attentive 
reader cannot but obferve,) is he guilty of, in faying the 
King is a female, g. d. the king is a Queen, or the male 
is a female; or that the fame individual Bee is of both 
fexes, male and female. Grofs notorious abfurdity, and 
an abfolute impoffibility! not to be forgiven in a pro- 
feffor of one of our learned and famous univerfities, and 
a fellow of the royal fociety.* 
But the profeffor is not alone, I find others alfo erring 
herein ; particularly Mr, Purchas, who not only inferts 
the fovereign or governour to be a Queen; but al- 
fo that fhe injects a fpermatic fubftance, thick like 
E cream, 
*Bradley’s Treatife of Hufbandry, &c, and Profs sffor of Botany, Wolsi, 
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