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  <dc:title>Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Nehemiah Grew, dated at Delft</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Signed autograph
Discussing Regnier de Graaf's theories about ovulation in women; further observations about sperm of rabbits and dogs; concerning the structure of bone and hair
Text refers to eight figures of male sperm, bone and hair but only three ink figures of sperm, numbered Figures 1, 3, 4 , are attached
English translation see EL/L1/37
Transcribed and translated in 'Alle de brieven van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek', edited, illustrated and annotated by Committee of Dutch Scientists, vol 2, p 355
English extract in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 12, issue 140, p 1002
B&amp;W negative, of one drawing, Box N101.  IM/005318</dc:description>
  <dc:date>31 May 1678</dc:date>
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