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at concealment and attenuation. After twenty-nine years of rela¬ 
tions with him, I possess in his voluminous correspondence a 
source of information which enables me to accomplish this task 
better than anybody else, and I am convinced that I have fulfilled 
it with impartiality.” C. II. O. S. 
I ON THE BEGINNINGS OF MY RELATIONS WITH LOEW, WITH 
SOME REMARKS ON THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF OUR 
CORRESPONDENCE 
My correspondence with Loew began as early as 1850 or 1851, 
when I was still living in St. Petersburg, but I have not preserved 
his letters of that time. I sent him a Limnobia which I had dis¬ 
covered near St. Petersburg, and which he described as L. im- 
perialis, sp. n. It proved afterwards to be the long-lost Tipula 
annulata Li nn 6 (compare 2, 1857). The tone of Loew’s letters to 
me not having been encouraging, the correspondence was not con¬ 
tinued. In 1856, Loew heard from Dr. Ilagen of my appointment 
as Secretary of the Legation in Washington, whereupon he suddenly 
displayed the greatest eagerness to renew our correspondence. He 
wrote me (Meseritz, April 11,1856) a most urgent letter, express¬ 
ing the hope that I would send him American Diptera, and com¬ 
plaining of his isolation, principally caused by his quarrel with Dr. 
C. A. Dohrn, President of the Stettin Entomological Society, who, 
as Loew contended, “ had systematically cut off all the sources of 
supply of material for work, which he formerly received through 
the medium of the Society.” Loew, on that occasion, sent me his 
recently published paper on Bombylius (“ Neue Beitriige,” 1855) and 
concluded his letter with this characteristic flourish : “ It is a pleas¬ 
ant feeling for me to think that, during the probably tedious Atlantic 
passage, or perhaps even on American soil, you will cast a glance 
on the lines of my composition, and recall my request that } r ou 
should be for me a Count von Hoffmannsegg, while, in truth, I am 
not immodest enough to compare myself with Master Meigen.” 1 
1 “ Es ist mir ein gar angenehmes Gefiihl zu denken, dass vielleicht auf der doch 
etwas langweiligen Seereise, oder gar auf amerikanischem Boden, Ilir Bliek einmal 
auf die von mir verfassten Zeilen fallen und Sie daran erinnern kdnnte, dass ich Sie 
