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'An Account of an Experiment

Microscopical observations of the development of the ant mb-width 5707 London Bridge StationIllustrations accompanying a letter describing Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's microscopical observations, dated 9 September 1687. The illustrations show: a fully formed ant inside an egg, as (incorrectly) observed by J F Griendelius and illustrated in his work Micrographia Nova (Nuremberg, 1687) (fig. 1); an ant egg (fig. 2); ant larva developing in an egg (fig. 3); a dead ant larva inside a partially dried egg (fig. 4); ant larvae (figs. 5 and 6); the