

Their Sex, &e 8x 
Of their Sex, &e. 
ARIOUS are the Opinions of learned 
Authors, as to their Sex, and Man- 
ner of Procreation; and they are greatly 
divided in their Sentiment, 7 
‘It has been a Controverfy in all paft Ages 
of the World; and is difputed in the pre- 
fent Age, whether in Striétnefs they are Male 
or Female; or confift of both; and propagate 
their Species, as do other Infeéts, by Cepula- 
tion: And if fo, which is the Male, and 
which the Female. wise ge tit 
And fo many Difficulties occur in En- 
quiries of this Nature, that in all Probabi- 
lity, and as far as I am able to judge, the 
full Decifion hereof muft be left to future 
Time, and the Generations which are to 
follow. Land - $n Berti 
Which is the Male, whether the Drone, 
the Sovereign, or the common Honey-Bee, 
is the Subject of our prefent Enquiry. Some 
difpute with Zeal for the Drones, fome 
for the Royal Sovereign,. and others for the 
Commions. | 
Ancient Writers in general, Philofophers, 
Hiftorians, Poets, and Phyficians, together 
G with 
