Antons+Science+Life

Science Life  ﻿﻿Anton had recorded his discoveries in letters written to the Royal Society of London. His first letter was about some observation on the stings of bees. in September 7,1674 Anton described his discoveries on the lake. He perfectly described the green charophyte alga, //Spirogyra// : **"Passing just lately over this lake, . . . and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise, and orderly arranged, after the manner of the copper or tin worms, which distillers use to cool their liquors as they disti** **l over. The whole c** **ircumference of each of these streaks was about the thickness of a hair of one's head. . . all consisted of very small green globules joined together: and there were very many small green globules as well."**  A letter later dated December 25, 1702 he gives descriptions including this ciliate, //Vorticella// : ** "In structure these little animals were fashioned like a bell, and at the round opening they made such a stir, that the particles in the water thereabout were set in motion thereby. . . And though I must have seen quite 20 of these little animals on their long tails alongside one another very gently moving, with outstretched bodies and straightened-out tails; yet in an instant, as it were, they pulled their bodies and their tails together, and no sooner had they contracted their bodies and tails, than they began to stick their tails out again very leisurely, and stayed thus some time continuing their gentle motion: which sight I found mightily diverting." **