Dissertatio epistolica de bombyce, Societati Regiae, Londini ad scientiam naturalem promovendam institutae, dicata
A 1669 Latin letter by anatomist Marcello Malpighi on the silkworm, printed in London for the Royal Society. Its plate shows engraved silkworm larvae in two stages and the silk-producing organs, drawn in fine crosshatched line with lettered reference marks.
