New microscopical discoveries; containing observations, I. On the calamary and its milt-vessels, in each of which appear a spiral spring, sucker, and barrel, like those of a pump and an account of their motion, with an attempt to prove that the animalcules in semine masculino are meer machines like these. II. On the Farina fæcundans of plants, with a view of a motion analogous to that in these milt-vessels. III. On the pistil, uterus and stamina of several flowers, with conjectures concerning the impregnation of their seed. IV. On the supposed embryo sole found on the bodies of shrimps with a description of a remarkable animal adhering to the tail-part of each embryo. V. On the eeels or worms bred in blighted wheat. VI. On several other curious particulars relating to the natural history of animals, plants &c

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1745 Storbritannien, London. Printed for F. Needham, over-against Gray's-Inn in Holborn, 1745 viii, 128 sidor., [6] pl.-bl. ill. 8:o