Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Delft Signed autograph Sends figures of the anatomy of the bee and gives an account of its sting; an account of the structure and growth of wood and the motions of fluids in wood; concerning the food and digestion of a louse; about the compression of air (with figures of tubes in the margins). For summary see 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 10, p 114 Transcribed and translated in 'Alle de brieven van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek', edited, illustrated and annotated by Committee of Dutch Scientists, part 1, p 40 English translation of Leeuwenhoek's letter on the compression of air printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 9, no 102, p 21 15 August 1673