Wrote Letter L-533 of 1716-05-22 to Cornelis Spiering about the scales of a carp that Spiering sent him, using scales to age a fish, eggs in hard roe and sperm in soft roe food for other fishes, shrimp eggs, and the life span of whales and fish

Date: 
May 22, 1716
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-533
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
XXIV
Collected Letters number: 
327
Collected Letters volume: 
17

In reponse to Letter L-529 from Cornelis Spiering enclosing scales from a dead carp, Leeuwenhoek wrote this letter about the scales that Spiering had sent him, using scales to age a fish, eggs in hard roe and sperm in soft roe food for other fishes, shrimp eggs, and the life span of whales and fish