Wrote Letter XXXI of 1716-11-21 (AB 330) to Herman Boerhaave

Date: 
November 21, 1716
Standard reference information
Cole's number: 
221
AB/CL number: 
330
AB/CL volume: 
18

Text of the letter in the original Dutch and in English translation in Alle de Brieven / The Collected Letters is not yet available at the DBNL - De Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren.

The original manuscript is lost.

Continuing the investigations in his previous letter into the fallopian tubes of a sheep, Leeuwenhoek in this letter to Herman Boerhaave examined the male organ equivalent, the spermatozoa from the spermatic vessels in the epididymis of a ram. He gave enough details of his experimental procedure that it could be replicated.