Wrote Letter L-251 of 1695-05-01 to Anthonie Heinsius about weevils, nutmegs and their safe storage, and tobacco seeds and their germination
Date:
May 1, 1695
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 …
- three kinds of larvae and adult weevils, all found dead in nutmegs
- an experimental investigation of the question whether nutmegs are damaged by mites
- a recommendation to fumigate the stores of the nutmegs in the tropics to prevent their being damaged by the indigenous larvae
- abortive attempts to cause nutmegs to germinate; picture of the embryo
- an examination of the wood of the root of the nutmeg tree by means of tangential, radial, and transverse sections
- further anatomy of the wood and of the leaf vein of the embryo
- tobacco seed and the embryo in it and a description of germination