Wrote Letter L-116 of 1682-03-03 to Robert Hooke about muscle fibres, hair, the cell nucleus in the erythrocytes of fishes, the liver of salmons, beards of oysters, and the structure and growth of oyster shell

Date: 
March 3, 1682
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-116
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
35
Collected Letters number: 
67
Collected Letters volume: 
3

Text of the letter in the original Dutch and in English translation from Alle de Brieven / The Collected Letters at the DBNL - De Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren.

The original manuscript on eleven quarto pages, written and signed by Leeuwenhoek, is preserved along with seven drawings at the Royal Society (MS. 1894. L 1. 66.).