The Select Works of Antony Van Leeuwenhoek, Vol. 2: Containing His Microscopical Discoveries in Many of the Works of Nature; Part the Third (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Select Works of Antony Van Leeuwenhoek, Vol. 2: Containing His Microscopical Discoveries in Many of the Works of Nature; Part the Third

Among this fpecies of tree, we often fee fome, from which, at the 2 thick part of the item the rifing fap leaks or oozes out, and in this liquor I have often, in the fummer time, obferved various animal cules, but which animalcules I could by no means conceive to have ifiued from the wood; but rather, that the firfi rudiments of them had been depofited either by the rain or dew.

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