Letter 1346

Chamberlayne sends his translation of Leeuwenhoek’s work. He had to mail it, rather than deliver it to the Royal Society in person, because he will be serving as a juror at the trial of Bernard and his elder son. 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]).