Wrote Letter L-487 of 1712-06-10 to the members of the Royal Society about little animals on a mussel's shell, the ciliar motion of the gills, and the intestines and ovaries of mussels

Date: 
June 10, 1712
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-487
Collected Letters number: 
294
Collected Letters volume: 
16

The original manuscript on six quarto pages, written and signed by Leeuwenhoek, is preserved at the Royal Society (MS. 2087. L 4. 46).

On the cover, Leeuwenhoek wrote, "for de Secretarij of the Roijall Societij at Gresham Colledge London".