‘wig ner hl 7, y*., 
Their Method of Generation. \4 og 
have for feveral Weeks conveyed leffer or 
larger Quantities of the above. faid Matter 
into their Hives; I have very itri€tly ex- 
amined, before any Young, (or very few 
- if any) had left their Places of Retreat, (7. e. 
their Matrixes ;) but nothing of it was to 
be found alone. To what other Purpofe 
then can it be appropriated? there being no 
Young, or next to none, to feed upon it. 
To me it appears defigned purely as Matter 
of Nutrition to the Fetus in the Cells; and 
no otherwife employed. - May we not from 
the whole juftly conclude, it can be of no 
other Service, than to nourifh the Young. 
If it is not thus employed, and converted 
to this Ufe alone, I would gladly learn 
where and. how it is difpcfed of, feeing no- 
thing of it is at that Time to be feen in 
the fame Form it was carried in; but cu- 
rioufly mingled. in the breeding Cells. 
‘The Phyfician again quarrels with the 
Apothecary for calling it animable, orga- 
nizable, and generative Matter.*  Nutri- 
tion, or the Act of Nourifhment, is a Kind 
of Generation. Here is Motus a Termino a 
guo ad Terminum ad quem; therefore Jecun- 
dum Partem, it is Generation. Nutrition is 
‘a Generation ; and if fo, why is it cenfured 
as a Crime to call it’s Ingredients animable 
or generative Matter ? 
With 
* Warder. Rufden, 
