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DescriptionParamecium from Philosophical Transactions 1703.jpg
English: A letter containing the earliest identifiable illustration of a Paramecium was published anonymously in Philosophical Transactions, in 1703. John Dolan has identified the probably author as Charles King of Staffordshire.
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