I will here subjoin some more proofs of the non-identity of wax and pollen. So long ago as 1768, the +Lusatian Society+ (called _Société des Abeilles_, founded at little Bautzen, a village in Upper Lusatia, under the auspices of the Elector of Saxony,) knew that wax was not discharged from the mouths of bees, but was secreted in thin scales among their abdominal rings or segments. About 1774, +Mr. Thorley+ caught a bee just entering its hive, and found, among the plaits of its belly, no less than six pieces or scales of solid wax, perfectly white and transparent, and he oftentimes saw wax in the same situation. +M. Duchet+, in his _Culture des Abeilles_, quoted by +Wildman+ in 1778, declares that wax is formed of honey; and relates in proof of it, that he has seen a broken comb of an overset hive, which was repaired during bad weather, when the bees could not acquire any other material. This statement of Duchet corresponds with my own observation, as stated in page 357, but is not so conclusive. In Duchet's instance there might have been other materials in the hive besides honey; whereas in my case the bees had access to no materials whatever, excepting the sugared ale and the honey which they had conveyed from the parent hive, the swarm having been just hived. +Wildman+, in his Treatise on the Management of Bees, states his having seen pieces of wax, like fish scales, on the hive floor of a fresh swarmed colony, part of which he thinks must at least have been formed upon the body of the bee; some flakes might have fallen from the combs then constructing, but there were many pieces among them which were concave on one side and convex on the other, as if moulded on the insect's belly. Flakes were likewise seen, hanging loose, between the abdominal scales of the bees. In 1792, +Mr. John Hunter+, apparently unacquainted with antecedent conjectures, detected the genuine reservoir of wax under the bee's belly. He considered wax as an external secretion of oil, formed and moulded between the abdominal scales of the insect. +Dr. Evans+ confirms the testimony of Wildman and Hunter, having been an eye-witness to the formation of wax into flakes. "One or more bees," he remarks, "may be often seen before the door of the hive, supporting themselves by their two fore-feet, fluttering their wings, and agitating the hind parts of their bodies. They are then evidently moulding the wax between their abdominal scales, the motion of the wings serving to preserve their balance, and as a signal for their companions within to come and carry off the falling flakes." In the Philosophical Transactions for 1807, +Mr. Knight+ states that there is no such secretory process; that the wax is laid on the scales of the abdomen for the convenience of carriage, and to receive warmth preparatory to cell-building.