c8 Antonii de Leeuwenhoek 



- Poftridie temporematutino , Primo Augufti, unum horum 

 Vermium, cujus corpus acuminatum fuerat, jam tertia quidem 

 mrtebreviorem effefaaum, itautcorpusipfius jam ab ante- 

 MriS pofteriori parte, sque foret craflum, ac .pfiffimam 

 vafculircprsefentaretformationem. 



Sub Vcfperam quatuor talia efle vafcula , & quemadmo- 

 dum hsc prima inftantiaalba fuerant , jam omnino flammeum 

 recepiflccolorem,confpiciebam. _ . 



Poftridie tempore matutino , fecundo Augufti , omma hxc 



Vaf HKcvafcula U inaiesexflammeomutabantur colore in puni- 



rum & ac fere fubnisra fiebant. 



Horum vafculorum duo vitro inclufa in facco portabam meo, 

 eofcopo™ uteadembreviffimotemporis fpat.om «»^««£ 

 toma^wr.Sedpoftquinqucautiesd.esmagnam^d.attm 



illis noxiam efle compericbam > nam hscce vafcula partim exa 

 rS confpkiebam; ac exinde nullam v.ventem crcaturam 



^rSu vafcula in chartam deponebam aceadem vitro 

 operkbam , & novem diebus prsterlapfis , undecmo Augufh , 

 ^ahorum vafculorum aperiebam , ac ex unoquoquc horum 

 perfeaamdcfumcbammufcam^fede^demmufca.adhucerant 



madidse, &abfquemotu(proutmihiappatebat> 



Hiq^queMufcas,pr*terdur„mcorticemvafcul«mcon- 



ficientem , adhuc tenui membranaobvolutas jacere. 

 fi ™UantiahifceinMufcisnullasagnofccreqmbama, aS 



,. r , '^r-v^i-cph^s, baure alas concmno 



\ed eafdem oauto acciuaaus ochCiva..»? *-=»- 

 inordinemfefeefleconvolutasconfpicicbam,h $ veroextnca- 



ts, perfeftaeerantala:. 



Hafcenondum natas mufcas aperiens , ex una earum mag- 

 nam Ovorumeopiamdefumebam. . 



Decimo quarto Augufti , quatuor magnas Mufcas in vi tro 

 vokntes confpiciebam, ac vafcula, ex quibus mufcs f«o* 



