Wrote Letter L-231 of 1693-12-20 to the members of the Royal Society about spiders, lice, and mites
Date:
December 20, 1693
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
Leeuwenhoek wrote this letter about …
daddy-longlegs; pupation of and eggs of daddy-longlegs; anatomy of the legs of daddy-longlegs
reproduction of lice and mites; the anatomy of a louse and structure of a mite; discussion about the life span of a mite