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92. The Hiffory of Bats. 
Colonies to my Knowledge) to ‘copulate 
with one Female? Reafon and common 
Senfe will tell us a much lefs Number maft 
be fufficient and effectual for fuch a Par- 
_ pofe. Why fhould fuch Numbers of thefe 
be produced for the Sake of one Queen, 
when few would be fufficient? 
We find it fo among the Fowls, which 
we obferve in Pairs; one Male, and one Fe- 
male ; and among the Beafts ‘of the Field, 
we frequently fee. one Male impowered to 
ferve an entire Herd or Flock; why may it 
not be the fame among Infects? 
I very well remember the Croydon Phyfi- 
cian quarrels with King Charles’s Bee-Matter 
for making a Bull of his King.* ‘Thus he 
writes; a Bee is firft an Egg, and not as 
Mr, Rufden ignorantly fuppofes, made of 
animable Matter (where he greatly miftakes 
the Apothecary, and wrongs him, ) gathered 
by. ‘the Bees from Flowers, and +cattidiito 
the Combs as their proper Matrix ; then he 
makes a King-Bee, and prefently makes a 
Town, Bull of his King, going from Cell 
to Cell, and cafting his Seed into every Cell. 
The attentive Reader. will, no doubt, put a 
Remark herein; a Town Ball, and yet no- 
thing of engendering or copulating with any 
Female whatever, Queen or Common Bee ; 
and, I leave him to put what Cenfure he 
Binks aPyopst upon the Doctor, who treats 
1a / his 
* Dr. Warder, p. 12. | 
