( 5?4 ) 
out the help of Males : So likewife I believe it is in 
Oyfters ^ and I am alfo of Opinion, that that exceed- 
ing Number of fmall Particles, which I difcovered in 
them, and which I took for Animalcula , are nothing 
elfe but the Parts put into a violent Motion : But thefe 
are not Obfervations, but gheftes in relation to the 
Oyfters. But if one dwelt upon the Sea Shore, and 
could daily view the Shell Fifti, one might fpeak with 
greater certainty and fatisfa&ion concerning them. 
I never made fo many Obfervations, nor with fo 
much Pains, as I have done in the Bufinefs oi Mufcles.’ 
But not being able to do it with Satisfaction, my vvifhes 
are, That the Difcoveries about the Produ&ion of Shell 
Fifh, may be enter’d upon by feme body elfe ; for as for 
my own Part I give it up; and with great Refpett I 
remain- 
'Tour mo ft humble Servant , 
Anthony van Leeuwenhoek. 
VII. An Account of what appeared on opening the 'Body 
of - St. Johns Ejfo who dyed of an Afthma, 
July the 2 d 1705. Aged 72 Tears . By the late 
Mr. William Cowper, Surgeon , F. S . Com- 
municated by Dr. Hans Sloanc, Reg. Soc. Seer. 
I T was remarkable, before the Body was removed 
from the Bed, whereon it lay.... Hours after Death, 
that the Blitter in the Neck had difeharged not lefs 
than a Quart or three Pints of Serum before I began the 
DifTe&ion. 
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