Image of a fly
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                                26 October 1700
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                p19
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                Material
                            
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                Dimensions
                            
                            
                                height (page): 224mm
width (page): 175mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (page): 175mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                One figure in a letter from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane.
Fig. 3: a little fly which received its food as a larva from a louse like in Fig. 1 (EL/L3/23/017).
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Fig. 3: a little fly which received its food as a larva from a louse like in Fig. 1 (EL/L3/23/017).
                                Object history
                            
                            
                                The Journal Book mentions on 27 November 1700, 'A Letter from Mr: Lewenhoek to Dr Sloane dated Delft Oct 26th 1700 with an excellent account, & curious observations of Insects on Fruit Trees and their Production. The Dr was desired to let it be printed in the Transactions & also to returne Mr Lewenhoeck the societys thanks' (JBO/10/203).
The images and letter are published in:
Phil. Trans. vol. 22, no. 266 (Sept/Oct 1700), pp. 659-72. With five figures.
A. van Leeuwenhoek, Sevende vervolg der brieven (Delft: H. van Krooneveld, 1702), pp. 275-94.
A. van Leeuwenhoek, Epistolae Ad Societatem Regiam Anglicam (Leiden: J. A. Langerak, 1719), pp. 263-80.
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            The images and letter are published in:
Phil. Trans. vol. 22, no. 266 (Sept/Oct 1700), pp. 659-72. With five figures.
A. van Leeuwenhoek, Sevende vervolg der brieven (Delft: H. van Krooneveld, 1702), pp. 275-94.
A. van Leeuwenhoek, Epistolae Ad Societatem Regiam Anglicam (Leiden: J. A. Langerak, 1719), pp. 263-80.
                                Related fellows
                            
                            
                                Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753, Irish) , Physician
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753, Irish) , Physician
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