Microscopical observations of the development of the ant mb-code 1619693 Plate 258 from chapter 48

Plate 258 from chapter 48 of Gleanings of natural history

Plate 14 from the paper 'On the milk tusks

Signed and inscribed lower left 'Wm

it was discontinued in 1961 in favour of the A40 MkII

Microscopical observations of the development of the ant mb-code 1619693 Plate 258 from chapter 48Illustrations accompanying a letter describing Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's microscopical observations, dated 9 September 1687. The illustrations show: a fully formed ant inside an egg, as (incorrectly) observed by J F Griendelius and illustrated in his work Micrographia Nova (Nuremberg, 1687) (fig. 1); an ant egg (fig. 2); ant larva developing in an egg (fig. 3); a dead ant larva inside a partially dried egg (fig. 4); ant larvae (figs. 5 and 6); the