258 LEEUWENHOEK AND HIS “ LITTLE ANIMALS”? 
appeared, out of which one of the inclosed round 
globules, having a fine green colour, dropt out, and took 
on the same motion in the water as the body out of 
which it came. Afterwards, the first round body ' remained 
lying without any motion: and soon after a second 
globule, and presently a third, dropt out of it; and so 
one after another till they were all out, and each took on 
its proper motion.” 
After the lapse of several days, the first round body 
became, as it were, again mingled* with the water; for I 
could perceive no sign of it. 
What also seemed strange to me, was that I* could 
never remark, in all the motions that I had observed in 
the first round body,’ that the contained particles ° shifted 
their positions; since they never came in contact, but 
remained lying separate from one another, and orderly 
arranged withal. 
Many people, seeing these bodies a-moving in the water, 
might well swear that they were little living animals; and 
more especially when you saw them going round first one 
way, and then t’other. 
Now when a great many of the said round bodies were 
in a bottle along with many little living animals, I saw 
that after the space of three days they were all gone, 
inasmuch as I could then make out none of the said 
bodies in the bottle. 
Moreover, I had put a few drops of water (as shown 
at CD [Plate XXVI1]) in a glass tube (Fig. 1, AB) about 
1 j.e., the mother-colony. 
2 en yder een beweginge aannam. These words are in the printed version 
but not in the MS., and were probably added in the proof as an afterthought. 
* <.e., the mother-colony broke up. The word is vereenigt [=united] in 
the MS., but was changed to vermengt [=mixed ] in the printed version. 
* The word ik—which is necessary for the sense of this passage—is here 
present in the MS. but omitted in the printed version. 
° 4,e., the mother-colony. 
* «.e., the individual flagellates composing the colony. 
