Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine,  1 (1817), 359–65.

Sketches of Foreign Scenery and Manners No II  [2/4]

X Y Z, pseud.  [John G Lockhart?] * and X Y Z, pseud.  [James Wilson?] *

Genre:

Travelogue, Serial

Subjects:

Naturalists, Botany, Zoology, Microscopy


    In the Netherlands the narrator visited the grave of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek 'famous for his microscopical discoveries' (362). Discusses at length the exalted status of storks in Dutch culture.



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