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  <dc:title>Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society, dated at Delft</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Signed autograph
Concerning the plant 'Aloe': its epidermal cells; sap; calcium oxalate crystals in the raphide bundles; vascular bundles; spiral vessels; mucilage cells.
Observations of red-veined dock.
Read to the Royal Society on 1 and 8 November 1704
14 red-chalk figures attached
Incomplete English translation is EL/L3/67
Transcribed and translated in 'Alle de brieven van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek', edited, illustrated and annotated by Committee of Dutch Scientists, vol 15, p 23
English translation printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 24, no 293, p 1730</dc:description>
  <dc:date>16 September 1704</dc:date>
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