Wrote Letter L-371 of 1700-06-16 to a "Highly Learned Sir" summarizing his earlier investigations of bees, especially the queen bee and her eggs, and of the propagation of other insects

Date: 
June 16, 1700
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-371
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
133
Collected Letters number: 
213
Collected Letters volume: 
13

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 as a brief summary of his earlier investigation of bees and of the propagation of some other insects. The queen bee and her eggs.

The "highly learned sir" is not further identified.