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Wrote Letter L-481 of 1711-09-22 to the members of the Royal Society about mites, their reproduction, eggs, larvae, a calculation of the size of a mite egg, the hair of a honey-bee, and metamorphis of larvae from dried fish into a full-grown animal
Date:
September 22, 1711
The original manuscript on fifteen quarto pages, written in another hand but signed by Leeuwenhoek, is preserved in London at the Royal Society (MS. 2091. L 4. 40).