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never gave any to anybody, nor did he intend to do so: 
and that if he were ever to submit to that, he would then 
soon be the slave of everybody; with other expressions of 
the like sort. When he had shown two or three of his 
microscopes, he took them away, and went to look for as 
many others; saying that he did this for fear lest any of 
them might get mislaid among the beholders, because he 
didn’t trust people, especially Germans: and he repeated 
this two or three times. O what a brute!’ 
Another person who has left a brief contemporary account of 
Leeuwenhoek and his microscopes—professedly from personal 
knowledge—is the Rev. Jean Cornand de la Crose. This 
gentleman was a French protestant refugee, who fled to 
Holland after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and later 
settled in England, where he was received into the Anglican 
Church.” In the year 1693 he published in London a curious 
monthly magazine* in imitation of the Philosophical Trans- 
actions: and in its May number he presented his readers with 
an English translation* (neither complete nor accurate, 
though written in a language which gives no cause for 
complaint) of Leeuwenhoek’s famous letter’ on the capillary 
circulation of the blood —the first version to appear in English. 
At the end of this he added :” 
Mr. Leeuwenhoek being so deservedly famous in the 
learned World, the Ingenious will undoubtedly be glad to 
* These final words are in Italian in the original. Cf. note 3 on p. 50. 
? But little is now known of de la Crose (alias Croze seu Lacroze). His 
own Memoirs etc. supply some information regarding his career, however, and 
a few further details may be found in Agnew (1886), Vol. II, p. 270, and the 
Nouv. Biogr. Gén. (Hoefer), Vol. XXVIII [s.v. Lacroze] . 
* Memoirs for the Ingenious [etc.]. 1698. This work is now extremely 
rare. Only one volume appeared: and an attempted continuation (The 
Universal Mercury) expired with its first number in January, 1694. 
* Ibid., Letter XIX, p. 145. 
° Letter 65. Tothe Royal Society. 7 Sept. 1688. Published (complete) 
in Dutch and Latin works: not in Phil. Trans. A full modern English 
translation (with Dutch original reprinted) will be found in Opuscula 
Selecta Neerlandicorum, Vol.1I, p.38 (Amsterdam, 1907), and a mutilated 
bit of this in Fulton (1930). 
° Mem. Ing., p. 152. 
