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An account of some new microscopical discoveries : founded on an examination of the calamary, and its wonderful milt-vessels, (each of which tho' they exceed not an horse-hair in diameter, contains a minute apparatus analogous to that of a pump, with a fine spiral spring, sucker, barrel, &c.) tending to prove by an accurate description of their motion, action, &c. that the hitherto supposed animalcules in the semen of animals, are nothing more than machines similar, tho' inconceivably less, to those discovered in this sea-production ..
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- London : Printed for F. Needham, over against Grey's Inn in Holborn, 1745
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- viii, 126 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 6 folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
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- ocm08152748
- [Title continues:] Also, observations on the Farina faecundans of plants : with a new discovery and description of the action of those minute bodies analogous to that of the calamary's milt-vessels : and an examination of the pistel, uterus and stamina of several flowers, with an attempt to shew how the seed is impregnated.
- [Title continues:] Likewise, observations on the supposed embryo sole-fish fixed to the bodies of shrimps, with a new discovery of a remarkable animalcule found single on the tail-part of each embryo : a description of the eels or worms in blighted wheat, and other curious particulars relating to the natural history of animals, plants, &c.
- "Dedicated to the Royal Society."
- Signatures: [A]⁴ B-I⁸.
- Dedication signed T. N. i.e. John Turberville Needham. Cf. ESTC.
- Errata: verso of title page.
- Bookseller's advertisement: Leaf I8.
- Some plates signed: Hen. Roberts sculp.
- ESTC (RLIN) T18893