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Published Sesde Vervolg der Brieven (Sixth Continuation of the Letters), Letters 97 - 107

Date:

January 1, 1697

Publication by Krooneveld in Delft of Sesde Vervolg der Brieven, Sixth Continuation of the Letters, containing eleven letters

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Year	Author	Title
1697	Leeuwenhoek, A. van	Sesde Vervolg

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November 6, 1696	Received an honorarium from the city for the Sixth Continuation of the Letters

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What Leeuwenhoek wrote ...
Wrote Letter L-283 of 1695-12-28 to Hendrik van Bleyswijk about herring, their stomach worms, the food in herring stomachs, and how small fish like herring catch food
Wrote Letter L-285 of 1696-02-20 to Frederik Adriaan van Reede about the anatomy of the body louse, especially the sexual organs and the louse's rapid reproduction, and his opposition to Jonston's and Kircher's observations on lice
Wrote Letter L-287 of 1696-03-08 to Nicolaas Witsen about white mace caused by vermin, a moth from a larva taken from mace, larvae and wings of the merchant grain beetle, and nutmeg; warehouses should be painted to protect spices from vermin
Wrote Letter L-292 of 1696-07-06 to Nicolaas Witsen about his analysis of the mineral that Witsen sent with Letter L-291, ant stings, and lacquer particles on a tree that originate from the tree itself, not from ants
Wrote Letter L-294 of 1696-07-10 to Nicolaas Witsen about demonstrating the rotation of the earth with the aid of a glass globe filled with water in which wax particles are floating.
Wrote Letter L-295 of 1696-07-10 to the members of the Royal Society about the circulation of blood in eels; mites, figs, strawberries, and a lobster's leg; a transcription of Christiaan Huygens's Letter L-223 about the reproduction of eels
Wrote Letter L-296 of 1696-07-16 to Frederik Adriaan van Reede about the male and female sexual organs of oysters and their larvae
Wrote Letter L-300 of 1696-08-26 to Frederik Adriaan van Reede about plant-lice, its embryos and parasitization, black flies and their caterpillars on apple-trees, and English oysters from Zierikzee
Wrote Letter L-302 of 1696-08-29 to Hendrik van Bleyswijk about oak-wood containing beetle larvae, which appeared to be able to feed on wood, and the cause of the differences in quality of oak-wood
Wrote Letter L-304 of 1696-09-12 to Anthonie Heinsius about rennet and curd, chalk and crab's-eyes in vinegar, smoking tobacco to cure toothache, the gall-bladder and omasum of a calf, milk-clotting, and his contradiction of a physician
Wrote Letter L-305 of 1696-09-27 to Hendrik van Bleyswijk about the age of fishes, especially herring, using scales and the structure of greater weever's spine and the painfulness of its sting

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