LITTER to the Merchants of Glasgow, ib. TABOB, a Comedy (Foote's) 241 394 TON, 309 NICOLSON and Burn's History of Weft- LEVISON on the Sore Throat, 469 0. BSERVATIONS on draining the LINDSEY's Sermoa at the Opening of the new Chapel, Eifex Street, 485 ODE to Peace, Loro's Nomenclature, 312 395 476 271 Oaton's Discourses on Practical Sube Lyson's farther Obs. on the Dropiy, jects, 77 399 from the Revolu.ijn to the pre. PANEGYRIC on Cork Rumps, 400 continued, 239 PATRIOT Minister, ALAGELLAN's Defcription of an Appa. PEARCE's Haunts of Shakespeare, 397 ratus for making Mineral Waters, &c. Percy, a Tragedy, 77 Perfect's Method of Cure in Cases of MACZNISE's Reformation of Law, Insanity, 479 PERFECTION, a poctic Epille, 305 396 PEY#ILHE on Cancerous Diseases, 232 MARXHAM's Sermon before the Humane PHILOSOPHICAL Trans. Vol. Lxvii. MARMONTEL's Incas, tranOated, 336 MATRIMONIAL Overtures, Epift.e to, 306 Elegy on his Death, 471 PLAIN and Scriptural Account of the MILMOTH's Travels for the Heart, 85 Lord's Supper, MEMORIAL of Common Sense, 239 Plan of Re union between Great Brie of the Countess D'Anois, 39+ Poems by Mrs. Rives, 237 MICKLE's, Sir Marlyn, a Poem, 76 Poetic Epifle to Lord Mansfield, 308 472 · EpiAle to the Reviewers, ib. 79 POLITICAL and religious Condu&t of the MONTESQUIYU's Works, 481 Disenters vindicated, Mort, Mrs. he's Tragedy of Percy, 23 Poor Vulcan, a Burletta, Mr. his Strictures on Thomsun's Pope's Sermon on the late Earthquake, Elements of Midwifery, 318 PORTUGAL, Letters from, MOTHERBY's Medical Dictionary, 316 PRIESTLEY's Experiments and Observa- MURPHY's Comedy, Kniw your own Harmony of the Evange- Disquisitions on Matter and 347 H 308 484 l'efestLEY's Do&trine of Pk lofophie) SERMON preached in a Country Church, 408 SERMONS on the late General Fast, FRICE, Dr. Addenda to his Tracts on PRINGLE'S Difcourse on Refleding Te. other Single Sermons, 86, 164, SHAKESPEARE. See PEARCE. PROPOSALS for a Plan of Reconciliation See MODERN CHA- 315 RACTERS. PROSPECT from Malvern Hill, 237 S13Ley's critical Essay on Jeremiah, &c. from Barrow Hill, 303 Public Spirit, an Efray, ib. SKETCH of a Tour inie Derbyshire, 209 of Two Alts of the Inth Parlia.. 474 475 SMITH's Optics, elementary Parts of AMSDEN's Description of an En. gine for dividing Mathematical in- 389 SONNETs and Odes translated from Pe. RANDOLPH's Letter to the Remarker, trarch, Two Sermons on the Chrif. 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SEMPLE on Building in Water, 432 SENTIMENTAL Journey, 399 VERSES ont he present State of Ireland, 87 Т. 396 Thoueht is beft, an Opera, 473 VA: Travellers, be common place Book VERSES. See ELEGIAC. WHITFIELD's Conjectures on the Tyn- 267 313 WILKEs's Etay on the Dropsy, WILLIAMS's Christian History, 43 ADDINGTON's Navigation, 475 History of the Northern Go- WALES and Baily's Aftronomie vernments of Europe, cal. Obr. in Cook's Voyage, &c. 9 WALES's Remarks on Forster's Account of Cook's Voyage, 127 WILSON's Translation of Coke's Re- WATER, Building on. See SEMPLE. WIMPEY's Letters, occafioned by Three 76 305 WELL's Religion, a Poem, 75 Wood's Miller and Farmer's Guide, 163 WESTMORELAND, &c. History of, 170 CONTENTS of the FOREIGN ARTICLES, in the APPENDIX to this Volume, RESPONDENCE, inserted in the Reviews for March, April, May, B4 Ayon's Memoirs relative to the HISTORY of the Royal Academy of History of Cayenne and French Sciences, &c. Berlin, for 1775, 512 506 MEMOIRS of the Royal Academy of In. BERTRAND's philosophical Effay on scriptions and Belles Lettres, Paris, CERISIER's History of the United Pro- MEMOIRES pour servir à l' Fif. de Cay- CONTRE POISONS del Arsenic, & c. 503 MONDE Primitif Analysé et comparé avec De la Composition des Paysages, &c. 561 le monde Moderne, &c. DESCRIPTIONS des Volcans eteints du NAVIER'S Antidote againft Puisons, 5®3 509 Nou vt aux Memoire's de l'Academie Roy- DISSERTATIONS jur l'Organe de í ale, &c. Berlin, Prix de la Justice et de l'Humanité, 544 Essai Pbilosopbique et Moral sur le Plaijer, SKETCH of Cerifier's History of the 495 United Provinces, Vol. III. 542 Faujas de St. Fond, M. his Description TABLEAU de l'Histoire generale des Pro- GEBELIN's Primitive World analysed, TRAVELS through the different Parts of 489 GEOFFROY's Differtation on the Organs VOLTAIRE's Prize held up to Jusice GERARDIN'S Treatise on Landscapes, VOYAGE Pittoresque de coute la Grece, Τ Η Ε MONTHLY REVIEW, For J A NU A R Y, 1778. ఈ00000000000000000 ART.I. PhiloSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS of the Royal Society of London. Vol. LXVIl. For the Year 1777. Part 1. 4to. 7 s. 6 d. Davis. Articles relating to NATURAL HISTORY. Article 3. Discoveries on the Sex of Bees, explaining the Manner in which their Species is propagated; with an Account of the Utility that may be derived from those Discoveries, by the actual Aplication of them to Pračtice. By Mr. John Debraw, Apothecary to Addenbrook's Hospital, &c. He remarkable obfervations related by M. Schirach, in his curious publication, The Natural History of Bees, and their great importance, considered not only in a philosophical, but likewise in an economical view, induced us to give a very full account of that work, in the Appendix to our 48th volume, 1773, page 562. The principal facts and doctrines established by that Writer are, that the queen bee does not lay a particular kind of eggs, from which future queens are to proceed; that all the working bees of a hive were originally female; and that any one of them, when it was in the egg or worm state, was capable of being converted, or rather nursed up by the community, into the state of a queen bee, and of becoming the mother or queen of a future hive. In that Article we noticed likewise the great advantages that have been de. rived, in the Palatinate and other parts of Germany, from this discovery. Though the Author, of the present Article refers to our ac. count of that work, and joins with us in wishing that it might be translated into our language; he seems to have discovered the manner in which the queen bees are produced, before the publication of our account of the discoveries of the German naturalist abovementioned. As we have not, fince that time, met VOL, LVIII. B with with any thing relating to this interesting Tubject ; though we hoped that our minute detail of M. Schirach’s processes and doctrines would have produced some similar trials in our own country: we shall briefly relate the substance of one of the Author's 'experiments, in confirmation of the fingular processes of the Lusatian philosopher. To render however this description intelligible, we must refer the Reader to our Appendix abovementioned. The Author divided a large brood-comb into several pieces ; each containing eggs, worms, and nymphs. He placed them under four feparate glasses, including with them a sufficient number of common bees, taking care that there was no queen among them. After an anarchy of two days, in consequence of their want of a queen, the bees becante coinposed, and betook themselves to work; as happened in M. Schirach’s experiments. On the fourth day, the Author perceived in each hive the beginning of a royal cell ;-— a certain indication that one of the inclosed worms would soon be converted into a queen. On the completion of the royal cell, the bees being restored to their liberty, Thewed no inclination to defert their habitation; and, at the end of twenty days, the Author observed four young queens among the new progeny. Similar success, he informs us, attended many other experiments of the same kind made afterwards. The remaining and principal part of this Article is employed in giving an account of the experiments the Author made, with a view to discover the use or functions of the drones, in a hive. They tend to prove that the eggs are actually imprégnated by them. This office he affirms he has repeatedly seen them perform; each inserting the posterior part of its body into a cell, and sinking into it, where it continued but a little while ;' and leaving a small quantity of a whitish liquor, less liquid than honey, in the angle of the basis of cach cell that contained an egg; which he found was soon afterwards absorbed into the embryo. He confirms likewise the observation of Maraldi and Reaumur, that there is a certain fpecies of drones in a hive which are no larger than the common becs. We apprehend that several naturalists have been led into error through their ignorance of this particular. Article 5. An Account of a Journey into Africa from the Cape of Good Hope, &c. By Dr. Andreas Sparruan, of the Royal In an expedition from the Cape Town, into the interior parts of Africa, which lasted nine months, the Author had an opportunity of making many curious and valuable observations relative to the ceconomy of the Hottentots, and to natural history. In the present Article he particularly describes a fingular species of cuckow, intirely unknown at the Cape Town, and |