ALEY'S Vifitation Sermon, ACAULEY'S Hiftory of England, PANEGYRIC on Cork Rumps, 400 MAGELLAN'S Defcription of an Appa- ratus for making Mineral Waters, &c. 477 PEARCE's Haunts of Shakespeare, 397 PERCY, a Tragedy, 23 305 479 PERFECTION, a poetic Epiftle, 396 PEYRILAE on Cancerous Difeafes, 232 MARRIAGE, 305 PIGOT, Lord, Defence of, Elegy on his Death, 12 239 PLAN of Re union between Great Bri- MICKLE'S, Sir Martyn, a Poem, 76 MILLER'S and Farmer's Guide, 163 POETIC Epifle to Lord Mansfield, 308 472 Mr. his Strictures on Thomfen's POPE's Sermon on the late Earthquake, CONTENTS of the FOREIGN ARTICLES, N. B. For the CONTENTS of the Foreign Articles in the COR- AYON's Memoirs relative to the BERTRAND'S philofophical Effay on 495 CONTRE POISONS de l' Arfenic, &c. 503 De la Compofition des Payfages, &c. 561 DESCRIPTIONS des Volcans eteints du DISSERTATIONS jur l' Organe de l' FAUJAS de St. Fond, M. his Defcription THE MONTHLY REVIEW, For JANUARY, 1778. ART. I. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS of the Royal Society of London. Vol. LXVII. For the Year 1777. Part 1. 4to. 7 s. 6d. Davis. ARTICLES relating to NATURAL HISTORY. Article 3. Difcoveries 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 thofe Discoveries, by the actual Aplication of them to Practice. By Mr. John Debraw, Apothecary to Addenbrook's Hofpital, &c. TH HE remarkable obfervations related by M. Schirach, in his curious publication, The Natural Hiftory of Bees, and their great importance, confidered not only in a philofophical, but likewife 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 eftablished 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 ftate, was capable of being converted, or rather nurfed up by the community, into the ftate of a queen bee, and of becoming the mother or queen of a future hive. In that Article we noticed likewife the great advantages that have been derived, in the Palatinate and other parts of Germany, from this discovery. Though the Author of the prefent Article refers to our account of that work, and joins with us in wifhing that it might be tranflated into our language; he feems to have difcovered the manner in which the queen bees are produced, before the publication of our account of the difcoveries of the German naturalift abovementioned. As we have not, fince that time, met VOL. LVIII. B with with any thing relating to this interefting Tubject; though we hoped that our minute detail of M. Schirach's proceffes and doctrines would have produced fome fimilar trials in our own country we fhall briefly relate the fubftance of one of the Author's experiments, in confirmation of the fingular proceffes of the Lufatian philofopher. To render however this defcription intelligible, we must refer the Reader to our Appendix abovementioned. The Author divided a large brood-comb into feveral pieces; each containing eggs, worms, and nymphs. He placed them under four feparate glaffes, including with them a fufficient number of common bees, taking care that there was no queen among them. After an anarchy of two days, in confequence of their want of a queen, the bees becante compofed, and betook themselves to work; as happened in M. Schirach's experiments. On the fourth day, theAuthor perceived in each hive the beginning of a royal cell; a certain indication that one of the inclofed worm's would foon be converted into a queen.' On the completion of the royal cell, the bees being reftored to their liberty, fhewed no inclination to defert their habitation; and, at the end of ✦ twenty days, the Author obferved four young queens among the new progeny. Similar fuccefs, he informs us, attended many other experiments of the fame 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 impregnated by them. This office he affirms he has repeatedly feen them perform; each inferting the pofterior part of its body into a cell, and finking into it, where it continued but a little while;' and leaving a fmall quantity of a whitifh liquor, lefs liquid than honey, in the angle of the bafis of each cell that contained an egg; which he found was foon afterwards abforbed into the embryo. He confirms likewife the obfervation of Maraldi and Reaumur, that there is a certain fpecies of drones in a hive which are no larger than the common bees. We apprehend that feveral naturalifts 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 Sparrman, of the Royal Academy of Stockholm, &c. In an expedition from the Cape Town, into the interior parts of Africa, which lafted nine months, the Author had an opportunity of making many curious and valuable obfervations. relative to the economy of the Hottentots, and to natural history. In the prefent Article he particularly defcribes a fingular fpecies of cuckow, intirely unknown at the Cape Town, and |