Department of Interdisciplinary Studies Professor Douglas Anderson, MFA, has published an article in FEMS Microbiology Letters titled “‘Your most humble servant’: the letters of Antony van Leeuwenhoek“. The article discusses the content, features and circumstances of the hundreds of letters that Leeuwenhoek wrote from 1673 to 1723 and their contemporary publishing history, especially in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. The article also has a brief history of the project begun in 1932 to publish a complete edition of Leeuwenhoek’s letters in Dutch and English translation with linguistic, scientific and historical annotations. Anderson is a guest researcher in the History of Science department at the Huygens Institute for Dutch History in Amsterdam, where he is co-editor of that edition, Alle de Brieven / The Collected Letters of Antony van Leeuwenhoek. This photgraph shows two pages of Leeuwenhoek’s handwritten letter of April 20, 1706, to the members of the Royal Society.

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