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LEEUWENHOEK AND HIS ‘‘ LITTLE ANIMALS” 
My opinion hereof was strengthened next day, when I 
saw, in the morning, after the water had been twice 
four-and-twenty hours in the tube, that nearly all the 
round globules that were on the twigs had gotten off 
them; and that some of these round globules, which I 
was sure were animalcules, were moving about among 
the branches, while a very few of them placed themselves 
again on the twigs, and stayed sitting there motionless 
for as long as I was busy looking at ’em. 
After another twelve hours’ time, I could not perceive 
that the bough-like structure was* grown any bigger; 
but I then saw that a few of the twigs were again beset 
with round globules, and that an animalcule, which was 
at least fifty times bigger than one of the globules, was 
running about on the branches: and forasmuch as the 
ends of the twigs, whereon this creature had been running, 
were once more laden with round globules, I concluded 
(though I could get no ocular proof thereof) that the big 
animalcule was dropping her young ones there.” 
On the 6th of August, I took a glass tube that was 
more than a foot long, and with a diameter of an inch; 
and this one was sealed up at one end with the flame, 
lest there might be some doubt whether the foresaid 
bough-like structure originated from the cork: and after 
I had rinsed it out once or twice, I put this glass tube in 
my closet, and viewed it many times, but I discovered no 
bough-like structures till after the water had stood in 
the glass tube for about forty hours,’ when I fastened a 
magnifying-elass to the tube, to see if the bough-lke 
structures (after I first saw them) would not grow any 
bigger. But how nicely soever I viewed them, I could 
make out no change in them. 
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waren MS.—a false concord. The observation seems to have been 
made on one © bough”’, and I therefore translate accordingly. 
2 This was, of course, an error. The “ big animalcule” was probably a 
ciliate—some of which prey upon Anthophysa. 
° ontrent veertig wren MS. Chamberlayne mistranslates this “ above 
40 hours”’. 
