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LONDON. Royal Microscopical Society, November 15.—Prof. F. J. Cheshire, president, in the chair.—C. Singer: The earliest drawings made by means of the microscope. These drawings, probably the earliest made, were prepared in 1625, 3 years before the birth of Malpighi and 8 years before the birth of Leeuwenhoek. They represent the anatomy of a bee, of which the mouth parts are particularly accurately rendered. The drawings are to be found on the fly-leaf of an excessively rare book, the “Melissographia” of Federigo Cesi, Duke of Aquasparta. The only specimen of this book known to exist is in the Lanuvian library at Rome. The drawings were made under the supervision of Cesi himself and of his colleague in the first “Academy of the Lynx,” Francesco Stelluti. A mechanical microtome was constructed by the instrument maker Cummings in 1770 and described by the notorious Sir John Hill.
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Societies and Academies. Nature 110, 829–832 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110829b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/110829b0