Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15787

    Image of a fly

    Date
    26 October 1700
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p19
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 224mm
    width (page): 175mm
    Subject
    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).
    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.
    Related fellows
    Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
    Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753, Irish) , Physician
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