Note 780 — LETTER XLII.
Reading edition
N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. ix. 125. Bonnet and Jurine both found that the female Aphides and Branchiopods that were fertile without the usual intercourse of the sexes were less fruitful than their mother, and those of the last generation less so than the first. Latr. Hist. Nat. des Crust. et Ins. xi. 292.