Wrote Letter L-437 of 1705-03-27 to the members of the Royal Society about his theory that bark tissue is formed from wood; cross-sections and pictures of vessels and cells of bark and wood tissue of cherry, birch, cinnamon, and lime trees and from cork
Date:
March 27, 1705
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
Leeuwenhoek wrote this letter about his theory of the formation of bark tissue from wood, with cross-sections and pictures of vessels and cells of bark and wood tissue of the wood of cherry, birch, cinnamon, and lime trees and from cork.
