80 LEEUWENHOEK AND HIS “LITTLE ANIMALS ” 
Among the minutes of Mr J. van der Werff, onetime 
notary public of Delft, the following entry has been found’: 
Upon this day the 3rd of June 1716 appeared before 
me, Jacob van der Werff, notary within the Town of Delff, 
in presence of the witnesses hereinafter named, Mr. 
Gerard van Loon, brewer at the Brewery called This 
Cross-grained World, within this town; and declared that 
by him present was duly received an epistle bearing the 
superscription: J’o the Highly-honoured and Far-famous 
Mr. ANTHONY LEEUWENHOEK, etc. at Delff, under cover ; 
together with a little silver medal, having graven upon the 
obverse thereof the lhkeness of the said Mr. Leewwenhoek 
encircled by the words “ANTHONY LEEUWENHOEK 
fteg: Societ: Angl: Membr:” and upon the reverse thereof 
the Town of Delff in the background,’ with the subscrip- 
tion “in tenut labor, at tenuis non gloria” (from Virgil *) : 
being enclosed in a little horn box, lined inside with 
velvet, and in a little bag of woven gold, sent to the 
appearant (as he explained) by Mr. ANTHONY CINK,’ Pro- 
* Quoted by Servaas van Rooijen (1904, p. 381), from whose transcript 
I translate. I have not seen the original. 
* Gerard van Loon (1683-1758), born at Delft: historian, lawyer, and 
numismatist, as well as brewer. He is now best known for his monumental 
work on Dutch historical medals (4 vols. folio, 1723-1731). Cf. N. Neder. 
Biogr. Woordenb. (1930), VIII, 1070. L.’s Send-brief XXII (16 May 1716) 
was addressed to v. Loon, and deals with hops—a subject of mutual interest, 
as L. indicates: for he notes that v. Loon’s mother owned a brewery, while 
his (Leeuwenhoek’s) grandfather and great-grandfather were brewers, and 
his grandmother the daughter of a brewer, ‘so that my forefathers handled 
much hops.” Cf. p. 20, supra. 
* And in the foreground, I may add (since this explains the motto), a 
beehive with bees actively at work collecting honey from a plant bearing 
flowers. 
* Georg. lib. IV, v. 6—the famous poem on the oeconomy of bees. The 
application to L. is both obvious and apt. 
° Antony Cinck (1668-1742), a Hollander born at ’s-Hertogenbosch 
(Bois-le-Duc), was a remarkable man; and in addition to his qualifications 
noted above was also sometime professor of pedagogics at Louvain, and of 
rhetoric at Liége. Being a Jansenist, he was later excommunicated by the 
Archbishop of Mechlin and fled back to Holland, where he died (at 
Dordrecht). Cf. N. Nederl. Biogr. Woordenb. (1924), VI, 300; and S. van 
Rooijen (1904). 
