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very different from that! grofs Matter, which 
is employed in nourifhing the other Young, 
I cannot but conclude from what I have. 
found, and taken out of the Royal Cells, of 
a very different Kind and Quality ; being 
ofa gummy, glutinous Nature; of adeep Red, 
tranfparent ; and would rather diffolve and melt 
in the Fire, than crumble to Powder. 
But that this Matter is pat into thof 
Matrixes firft, and the Sperm of the King- 
Bee injected iererneass according to Mr. 
Rufden, 1 take to be an Error.* — 
One Thing here feems not fo eafily to be un- 
derftood, namely, how the Matter thus pre- 
pared for the Nutrition of the Royal Feetus, 
and formed into a proper Liquid, fhould 
be retained in thofe orbicular Cells, being 
built perpendicular, and the Mouths point- 
ing, and hanging down directly towards the . 
Stool or Floor; turning up an Hive full of 
Combs, thefe Royal Pavilions will immedi- 
ately prefent themfelves, appearing in the 
Form and Pofition now mentioned; yet the 
Thing is true in Fadt, and may be ac- 
counted for. 
It is alfo an Uncertainty what Numbers 
of thefe are bred in a fingle Hive or Colony. 
‘Dr. Butler + tells us he once took up eight 
- of thefe together brought out of the Hive, 
when two at leaft were gone forth with 
their Swarms, and that in 1633. as he re- 
ceived 
* Mr. Rufien,p. 54, + Dr. Buthr,p. 4c 
