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THE

PHILOSOPHICAL

TRANSACTIONS

(From the Year 1719, to the Year 1733)
ABRIDGED,

AND

Difpofed under General HEAD S.

By Mr JOHN EAMES, F. R. S.

AND

JOHN MARTYN, F. R. S. Profeffor of Botany
in the University of CAMBRIDGE.

VOL. VII. Containing

Part III. The ANATOMICAL Papers.

Part IV. The PHILOLOGICAL and Mifcella-
neous Papers.

CLONDON:

Printed for J. BROTHERTON, J. HAZARD, W. MEADOWS,
T. Cox, W. HINCHLIFFE, W. BICKERTON, T. ASTLEY,
S. AUSTEN, L. GILLIVER, and R. WILLOCK.

1734.

L Soc 1816.10.2(7),

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

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HE Hunter in a clear Sun-fhiny day, takes a Plate, A Method or Trencher, with a little Sugar, Honey, or Mo- lately found loffes, fpread on it, and when got into the Woods, out in Newfets it down on a Rock or Stump: this the Bees difcovering England, for foon find out; for 'tis generally fuppofed a Bee where the will fcent Honey or Wax above a Mile's diftance. Bees hivein The Hunter fecures in a Box or other Conveniency, rder to get the Woods, in one or more of the Bees as they fill themfelves, and after a little time their Honey. lets one of them go, obferving very carefully the Courfe it fteers; By the Hon. for after it rifes in the Air, it flies directly, or upon a ftreight Courfe, Paul Dudley to the Tree where the Hive is. Efq; F.R.S. No. 376. P.

In order to this, the Hunter carries with him his Pocket Compafs, his Rule, and other Implements, with a Sheet of Paper, and fets down the Courfe, fuppofe it be Weft; by this he is fure the Tree must be somewhere in a Weft Line from where he is, but wants to know the exact Distance from his Station; in order to determine that, he makes an off-fet either South or North (we'll fuppofe North) VOL. VII. Part iii.

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