Wrote Letter L-455 of 1707-07-12 to the members of the Royal Society as thanks for numbers of Philosophical Transactions and as cover to a copy of Letter L-441 to Corner; mentioned the visit of Gilbert Burnet

Date: 
July 12, 1707
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-455
Collected Letters number: 
269
Collected Letters volume: 
15

Text of the letter in the original Dutch and in English translation from Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters at the DBNL - De Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren.

Note: This is the final letter in Collected Letters volume 15 and thus the final letter available at the DBNL.


Leeuwenhoek wrote this letter as thanks for numbers of Philosophical Transactions and as cover to a copy of Letter L-441 to Corner; mentions the visit of Gilbert Burnet

Covering letter with a copy of a letter addressed to Francisco Cornaro about experiments with pearl. (See EL/L3/83 for an English translation of this latter letter)

Letter of thanks for the sending of issues of the Philosophical Transactions. Mentioning the visit of Burnet. Remittance of notes on the pearl.