The} Hes siO/R¥ .of FINS E C,TS.. 
One full grown queen in the fwarm, I 
One full grown queen in the original 
hive}! I 
Full grown queens in the clofed up cells, 9 
Full grown working Bees in the 
{warm, i aa 
Full grown working Bees in the origi- 
nal hive, 8494. 
Full grown males in the fwarm, _ 4 
Full grown males in the original hive, 693 
Nymphs of queens, 5 
Nymphs and Worms of working Bees, 6468 
Nymphs and Worms of males, 858 
Thefe numbers added together make 18966 
for the total number of all thefe little animals 
contained in a fingle hive before it {warmed ; 
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at which time 2438 of them iffued forth in 
fearch of a new habitation. 
The number of cells, the old and new 
built ones, thofe which were {hut up and con- 
tained Nymphs; the empty cells, and thofe 
of working Bees full of honey *, or Bee’s 
bread, all excepted, was as follows: 
Cells of queens begun or finithed 
Cells of males fhut up, empty, and 
thofe which, after the Bees had 
left them, were filled with honey, 2366 | 
In all 24.09 
Do not all thefe particulars difplay in a fur- 
prifing manner the inftin¢t, diligence, and dex- 
terity, which it has pleafed the all-powerful 
Creator to beftow on thefe little infects ? 
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An account of feveral wonderful particularities difcovered on opening a hive, that 
had a few days before received a young fwarm. 
be eS to be in the country on 
the 25th of July, I obferved a great {warm . 
of Bees, which, on its hanging to an Elm, I 
ordered to be received into a hive ; but ina 
little time they all left this new habitation, and 
fled back to the elm, where they hung en- 
tangled by each others legs. The female Bee 
had not dropt into the hive with the others : 
I was therefore obliged to have recourfe to 
another fhaking ; when having brought the 
female into the hive, all the reft foon fol- 
lowed. 
On the 26th of July the weather was tole- 
rably good, with a bright funfhine; the 27th 
cloudy ; the 28th and 2gth rainy: on the 30th 
on examining the hive, I found at the bottom 
of it upon the ground where it ftood, a piece 
of a honey-comb, which had fallen thither, 
either becaufe it had not been ftrongly enough 
faftened to the top of the hive, or becaufe too 
many Bees had lighted upon it at one time. 
‘This piece of a comb contained 418 cells of 
for the working Bees, fome were building, 
and others were finifhed, and there were alfo 
ten eggs fticking to the wax by one of their 
ends. All the forenoon of the 31ft it was rainy 
and. about midday very cloudy and windy, 
with fome rain. In the evening I ordered the 
hive to be taken into my chamber, in order to 
examine what the Bees had done in the {pace 
of thefe fix days. 
But as I was afraid of being ftung in this 
enterprize, I refolved to have all the Bees 
killed before I went to handle or infpe@t them, 
for this reafon I fumigated them with a bundle 
of lighted matches rolled up in linen rags, to 
fuch a thicknefs, that it would juft fit in the 
upper opening of.the hive. All my endea- 
vours to kill thefe Bees this way were however 
to no purpofe ; for after plying them with this 
fume, from eight o’ clock to eleven, lighting 
the matches from time to time, as they went 
out, the Bees continued alive; but they feemed 
grievoufly complaining of, and refenting the 
injury offered them, with the moft horrid noife 
and loudeft buzzings. 
The next morning all was quiet again, fo 
T removed the hive, at the bottom of which 
I found fome hundreds of Bees lying dead 
upon the ground; but the greateft part of 
them were {till alive, and fome of them were 
beginning to fly away. I therefore refolved 
to fumigate the hive a fecond time, and I gave 
its inhabitants liberty to efcape while it was 
doing. For fear of being ftung on this occa- 
fion, I took a half pint bottle, and having 
rolled fome foft paper about the neck of it, 
thruft it into the opening of the hive, taking 
care afterwards to itop all gaps between the 
door or opening of the hive, and the neck of 
the bottle with more paper of the fame kind. 
As foon as the fulphurecus vapour began to 
fill the hive, the Bees in the greateft hurry 
and confufion and with the moft dreadful 
buzzing, rufhed to the number of 1898 ina 
manner all at once into the bottle, which I 
then removed to fubftitute another in its place ; 
and by repeating the operation in this manner, 
I at laft fo thoroughly accomplifhed my pur- 
pofe, that not the leaft noife could be héard in 
the hive. 
Having then turned the hive upfide down, 
I found the queen lying dead, in appearance, 
upon the ground, and fome of the others which: 
had fallen upon the ground, killed downright 
and wet all over; whilft fome other Bees that 
had remained in the upper part of the hive, 
were quite dry, and when put into the bottles 
flew about as briskly as if they had not re- 
ceived the leaft harm. 
I next poured fome water upon the prifoners 
Thad in the bottle; by this means they were 
all drowned in a very fhort time. I then made 
my examination, and found the fwarm con- 
iy Maroldi, by the moft careful examination, and on the refult of the ftriett éalculation, has proved that the pyramidal figure of 
the bottom of the cell ina honey-comb is determinately and exactly that, in which the fubftance of the cell takes up the leaft room, 
and the {pace contains the greateft vifible quantity of honey, 
fitted 
