102 LEEUWENHOEK AND HIS ‘‘ LITTLE ANIMALS ”’ 
At the foot of the tombstone has been added an inscrip- 
tion stating that along with her father lies “Maria van 
Leeuwenhoek, his daughter, born at Delft the 22nd of 
September 1656, and passed away the 25th of April 1745.” 
There is also a carved flying eagle, clutching a shield on 
which the coat-of-arms of the Leeuwenhoeks was probably 
once emblazoned.’ 
The following entry’ relating to Leeuwenhoek’s tomb is 
to be found in the Archives of Delft, from which it was 
extracted and published by Soutendam (1875) *: 
In the North Transept of the Old Church of Delft, 
against the wali of the tower, was erected in the year 1739, 
at the expense of Mistress Maria van Leeuwenhoek, in 
memory of her late father the world-famed Mr. Anthony 
van Leeuwenhoek (son of Phillip van Leeuwenhoek, 
Anthony’s son, and of Margaret Bel van den Bergh, 
James’s daughter), under the supervision and care of 
Mr. William van der Lely, at that time Councillor 
and Treasurer of the town of Delft, an Obelisk, simply 
but bravely and elegantly designed by the artist Taco 
Jelgersma, at Haarlem, and wholly wrought by the 
stone-mason Gerrit van der Giesen. 
There is little more to add: but after recording the handi- 
work of Mr Gerard van der Giesen, the good Dutch mason, 
T should like to recall a few lines left by the more sensitive 
hand of an Englishman, Martin Folkes “Esq., Vice-President of 
the Royal Society, in his report on the microscopes bequeathed 
to the Society by Leenwenhoek. Folkes’s account of these 
* See p. 305 infra. 
? IT translate Soutendam’s transcription—not having seen the original. 
It is not unlikely that our famous “ English” artist Sir Peter Lely was a 
kinsman of the Willem van der Lely, sometime Burgomaster of Delft, 
whose signature was appended to this document. 
° I give it in full, because the information supplied by Boitet (1729, 
supplement), Haaxman (1875), Morre (1912), and others, is incomplete. 
* Martin Folkes (1690-1754) was an antiquary, and a distinguished man 
in his day. He studied in France (Saumur) and later at Cambridge. He 
was elected F.R.S. in 1714, Vice-President of the Society in 1723, and 
was President from 1741 to 1753: he was also President of the Society of 
Antiquaries (1750) and a member of the Académie des Sciences (1742)2 Oe 
Dict. Nat. Biogr. and Rec. Roy. Soc. 
