Wrote Letter L-119 of 1682-04-04 to Robert Hooke about the structure of the muscle tissue of lobsters and shrimps.

Date: 
April 4, 1682
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-119
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
36
Collected Letters number: 
68
Collected Letters volume: 
3

Text of the letter in the original Dutch and in English translation from Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters at the DBNL - De Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren.

The original manuscript on six quarto pages, written and signed by Leeuwenhoek, is preserved at the Royal Society (MS. 1895. L 1. 66). Of the 15 letters that he addressed to Robert Hooke, this letter is the last one that we have and the last one that was published.