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  <dc:title>Translation of a letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to John Somers</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Observations of the sperm of young cocks; life span of these spermatozoa to fertilise a hen's egg
Original is EL/L3/38
English translation printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 23, no 279, p 1137</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1701</dc:date>
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