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  <dc:title>Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Sent a printed copy instead of a signed autograph
Observations of a tapeworm in a human and compares this with worms found in the intestines of eels; observations of tapeworms in a variety of fish; investigation of how the tapeworm feeds; observation of salt and sand in the intestines of cod
Read at the Royal Society on 4 April 1694
See EL/L2/48 for covering letter
Transcribed and translated in 'Alle de brieven van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek', edited, illustrated and annotated by Committee of Dutch Scientists, vol 9, p 323</dc:description>
  <dc:date>24 January 1694</dc:date>
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