Letter 0834

Chamberlayne presents Sloane with his latest letter from Leeuwenhoek. It is to be put before the Royal Society. Chamberlayne has translated ‘samen-stremen’ as ‘cement, coagulat, coalesce & unite’, but he is unsure whether it is accurate. He submits it to Sloane’s judgment. John Chamberlayne was a translator and editor specializing in modern languages which he studied at the University of Leiden. He translated works on many topics, was a fellow of the Royal Society, and published three works in the Philsophical Transactions (Reavley Gair, “Chamberlayne, John (1668/9-1723)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5060, accessed 30 May 2011]).