The Select Works of Antony Van Leeuwenhoek, Vol. 2 Containing His Microscopical Discoveries in Many of the Works of Nature; Part the Third (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Select Works of Antony Van Leeuwenhoek, Vol. 2: Containing His Microscopical Discoveries in Many of the Works of Nature; Part the Third
Fig. 2, ffff, exhibits the horizontal vefi'els cut tranfverfely; fuch of them'as appear collected in fmall parcels, I take to be thofe which are beginning to be formed from the perpendicular veffels and, that thofe which are collected together in great numbers, are 'the produce of feveral years growth, and contain as great a number as ever would be formed in the future growth of the tree.
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