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with the intestine, which retain his name in the insect anatomy 

 of to-day, under the designation of Malpighian tubes. The 

 silk-forming apparatus was also figured and described. These 



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Fig. 14. — From Malpighi's Anaiomy of the Silkworm, 1669. 



structures are represented, as Malpighi drew them, on the 

 left of Fig. 14. 



This monograph, which was originally published in 1669 

 by the Royal Society of London, bears the Latin title, Disser- 

 iatio E pistol ica de Bomhyce. It has been several times re- 

 published, the best edition being that in French, which dates 



