314 LEEUWENHOEK AND HIS ‘‘ LITTLE ANIMALS” 
to the Royal Society.’ Martin Folkes," who examined 
Leeuwenhoek’s cabinet of microscopes shortly after it reached 
England, has left the following record”: 
The Legacy consists of a small Indian Cabinet, in the 
Drawers of which are 13 little Boxes or Cases, each 
containing two Microscopes, handsomely fitted up in 
Silver, all which, not only the Glasses, but also the 
Apparatus for managing of them, were made with the 
late Mr. Leewwenhoek’s own Hands: Besides which, they 
seem to have been put in Order in the Cabinet by him- 
self, as he design’d them to be presented to the Royal 
Society, each Microscope having had an Object placed 
before it, and the Whole being accompany’d with a 
Register of the same, in his own Hand-Writing, as being 
desirous the Gentlemen of the Society should, without 
Trouble, be enabled to examine many of those Objects, 
on which he had made the most considerable Discoveries. 
Several of these Objects yet remain before the Micro- 
scopes, tho’ the greater Number are broken off, which 
was probably done by the shaking of the Boxes in the 
Carriage. I have, nevertheless, added a Translation of 
the Register, as it may serve to give a juster Idea of 
what Mr. Leewwenhoek design’d by this Legacy, and also 
be of Use, by putting any curious Observer in Mind of a 
Number of Minute Subjects, that may in a particular 
Manner deserve his Attention. 
The 13 Cases abovemention’d are numbered from 15 
to 27 inclusively,’ corresponding to which is the Register 
of the Objects, Two to every Case, as follows. 
1 See p. 95 supra. As is well known, these instruments are now all lost. 
There is no foundation for the statement of Haeser (16532 Vol. I, p.a62* 
repeated in 3rd ed. 1881) that they are in the British Museum—nor have 
they ever been there, so far as I am able to ascertain. 
2 See p. 102, note 4, supra. 
° Holkes (1724), p.447 sq. L.’s own description of his cabinet has 
already been given on p. 96 supra. 
‘ Baker (1740, p.507), commenting on these numbers, says “it neces- 
