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OBITUARY NOTICE OF PROFESSOR LOEW 
his heart, he finally felt that he could no longer endure endless 
annoyances, and he sent in his resignation in 1868. 
In the meantime his scientific work was going on incessantly, 
and had earned him a universal reputation. His “ Dipterologische 
Beitrage,” that appeared as a separate publication, and numerous 
papers scattered over different periodicals, are considered as funda¬ 
mental. He published separate works on North American Diptera, 
and their classification and description is, for the most part, his 
work. By the introduction of the venation 1 as a systematic char¬ 
acter, very little valued before him, he founded a new branch of 
this study. Many new species were discovered or described by him 
for the first time. A still greater popularity was obtained by his 
works on noxious insects, especially Cecidomyiae. lie also paid 
attention to fossil insects, and particularly to those enclosed in 
Amber and preserved in wonderful perfection. Through his inter¬ 
course with dealers in Amber he had formed a large collection of 
such Amber mummies ; and I can remember him now, sitting at 
his working-table, which was laden like a jeweller’s counter with 
these brilliant objects, and examining them with his magnifying- 
glass. These works on the Diptera of the Tertiary period, and 
especially on the Amber Diptera, still await publication. 2 
In 1868, free from all official cares, he moved from Meseritz to 
Guben. Here he had plenty of time to give himself up to his fa¬ 
vorite studies, working incessantly, and only now and then inter¬ 
rupting his work by scientific excursions in Germany and abroad. 
His appearances at the yearly meeting of German naturalists are 
remembered by his friends and colleagues. Of friends he had a 
great many in all parts of the world, and his correspondents could 
be counted by the hundred. 
The claims of public life that could not spare his many-sided 
knowledge and experience gradually again took possession of him. 
Solicited by different associations, elected a City-Councillor and 
Vice-President of the Council, he could not escape other engage¬ 
ments, and, after a long interval, he accepted a seat in the Lcgis- 
1 About Loew’s treatment of the venation, I shall have something to say in my 
“Characterization ” of him as a rlipterologist. — Osten Sacken. 
2 Compare my Chapter IXon Loew’s work on Amber Diptera, etc.— Osten Sacken. 
