‘ae “The Hiflory of Pen a 
after the Honey-Bees have firtt: put in forme 
generative | Matter. 
I have Sa a upon Trial” ‘mane the 
contrary, Eggs in the Cells, without any of’ 
the faid Matter mingled ‘with them, ‘there~ 
fore I deny the Affertion ; ‘as alfo that the’ 
Matrix is ftopped clofeé up, and covered’ 
with Wax, at the firft‘Mixture.*° °°? 
The Ege thus fixed’ in’ the Bottom’ of 
the Cell keeps for a few Days, (as' longas 
it remains without Life or Motion) and’ it’s 
Form, or Situation, 1s without" sp Tea 
Change. 
It’s next Appearance, or Form, is that 
of a littl Worm or Maggot, and nothing 
mire, turning itfelf into a Round or Semi- 
circle at the Bottom of the Cell, where “it 
floats in a proper Liquid, whereby it is nou- 
rifhed, and it’s Bulk daily encreafed. 
‘What the Nature of this Liquid is, Mr. 
Bradley tells us cannot be known, by rea- 
_fon of the Smallnefs of it’s Quantity ; ; and 
therefore we remain in doubt whether the 
fame be Honey carried thither by the Bees, 
other Matter proper to fructify the Spetin Ss i 
_ Certainly it is not Honey, nor hath the 
Tafte of Honey; but only Water mixed 
with the Matter before mentioned, gathered 
by the tender Mothers, and placed in the faid 
Cells, as Proper Food for their pale a 
“Mr. 
*® Rufden, pag.555 55 + Bradley, pag. 234. 
