
84. The EHiftory of Brxs. 
And as we are. confident that the King? 
_who may be: eafily diftinguithed from the 
Drones by his Size and Colour, isa Female ; 
we may fay that the Drones are Males. Upon 
* which Suppofition, the Cylindrical Bodies 
mentioned before may ferve for T efticles, 
7. e, two little ones, and two Jarger for fe~ 
minal Veffels, whee the feminal Subftance 
is brought to Perfection ; but I have not been © 
able hitherto to difcover in what Manner 
the Impregnation is brought about. 
He afterwards adds, from fome Obferva- 
tions 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 him- 
-felf, confidently affirming the Drones to be the 
Males, provided with four Tefticles (inftead 
xe. two) for perpetuating the Species, and yet 
contribute nothing to Generation? 
But a greater Blunder than. this, (which 
‘the attentive Readercannot but oliferve ,) is he 
guilty of, in faying the King is a Female, 
q. d. the King is a Queen, or the Male is 
a Female; or that the fame individual 
Bee is of both Sexes, Male and Female. 
Grofsnotorious Abfurdity, and an abfolute Im- 
poffibility! not to be forgiven in a Profeffor of 
one of our learned and famous Univerfities, 
and a Fellow of the Royal Society. * 
But 
* Bradley's Treatife of cebll éc. wae Profefor — 
of Botany. \ Vol. 1. p. (251, 
To 8 er ee _s 5 
