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100 LEEUWENHOEK AND HIS “ LITTLE ANIMALS ” 
to his memory—on the north side of the tower, in the north 
transept—and the two bodies were then transferred to its foot 
(section 22, graves 14 and 15), where they now he. Maria 
was buried in the same sepulchre* on 30 April 1745. 
The tomb of Leeuwenhoek is shown in Plate XV, which is 
reproduced from an old engraving.” It is little altered at the 
present day.” On the stone pedestal, which rests upon two 
plinths and is surmounted by a white marble skull and 
crossbones flanked by two spheres, is the inscription: 
PATRI CHARISSIMO HOC MONUMENTUM FILIA 
MARIA A LEEUWENHOEK MOERENS P.4 
On the obelisk rising from the pedestal there rests a white 
marble urn supporting a gilt torch; and a circular plaque 
of similar marble, surrounded by decorative ribbon-work, 1s 
affixed to the front. The plaque bears a profile portrait of 
Leeuwenhoek. On the front of the obelisk is inscribed : 
PIAE ET AET. MEM. 
ANTONII A LEEUWENHOEK 
REG. ANGL. SOCIET. MEMBRI 
QUI NATURAE PENETRALIA ET PHYSICES ARCANA 
MICROSCOPIIS AB IPSO INVENTIS ET MIRABILI ARTE FABRICATIS 
ASSIDUO STUDIO ET PERSCRUTATIONE DETEGENDO ET IDIOMATE BELGICO 
DESCRIBENDO DE TOTO TERRARUM ORBE OPTIME MERUIT. 
NAT. DELPH. XXIV OCT. A®°, MVI°XXXII 
IBIDEMQUE DENAT. XXVI AUGUSTI A° MVII°XXIII.® 
1 This tomb was purchased by L. himself on 8 June 1686 (fide Schierbeek, 
1930). 
? Supplement to Boitet (1729)—not found in all copies of this work. 
° The only recent description of the tomb is that of Harris (1921), who 
appears to have visited it under unfavourable conditions and was con- 
sequently displeased. But his knowledge of L. was obviously very 
superficial, and his paper—in a popular journal—cannot be taken seriously. 
‘Pp. = posuit. “To her most beloved Father this monument his 
daughter Maria van Leeuwenhoek mourning has erected.” 
> “mo the fond and everlasting memory of Antony van Leeuwenhoek, 
Fellow of the English Royal Society, who, by detecting through diligent 
application and scrutiny the mysteries of Nature and the secrets of natural 
philosophy by means of microscopes invented and marvellously constructed 
by himself, and by describing them in the Dutch dialect, has earned the 
