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Rob.-Besvoidy, Rondani , Zeller , Schiner , and also, in a certain 
measure, Holiday. 
I could not omit giving an account of my controversies with 
Professor Brauer; but, avoiding useless detail, I have introduced 
all the references necessary for a critical study of them in the future. 
It is an historical account sine ira et studio. In fact, it will 
be seen that, in most instances, Brauer is made to be his own 
critic by a mere verbal reproduction and juxtaposition of his own 
utterances. 
It has been an equally distasteful task for me to point out my 
friend Loew's persistent and systematic disregard of his brother 
dipterologists ; it constituted a dark and to me an almost inex¬ 
plicable feature of his character. The only secret motive of this 
idiosyncrasy that I can surmise is the consciousness of Loew that 
Nature had formed him for something better than describing Dip- 
tera, which was probably true. But that is not a sufficient excuse 
for the eccentric treatment which Loew was in the habit of 
dealing out to dipterologists like Zetterstedt , Winnertz, Rondani , 
Scliiner , and myself. The facts are given in Part II of this 
“ Record,” for Zetterstedt , in Chapter XVIII; for Winnertz, in 
Chapter VI; for Rondani , in Chapter XIX ; for Schiner, in Chap¬ 
ter XXI; and for myself, in Chapter II, an account of Loew’s 
treatment of my Monograph of the Tipulidae brevipalpi, and in 
Chapter XII, a general account of my co-operation with Loew, and 
of his sudden rupture of it in 1875. Even Holiday , Loew’s most 
intimate correspondent, was on more than one occasion slighted by 
him, as will be shown in my account of their relations (in Part II, 
Chapter VIII, Holiday and Loeiv'). 
In my personal intercourse with Loew, I used to express to him 
very frankly my disapproval of his treatment of some authors. He 
received such reproaches with pleasant raillery, and passed to other 
subjects of conversation. On one occasion Loew acknowledged to 
me with remarkable candor his propensity to jealousy. I had bred 
several new species of North American Trypetae from galls, and 
intended to publish an account of them with illustrations, but I 
deemed it prudent to ascertain Loew’s opinion beforehand on this 
project. He answered (March, 1862) : “ You ask me in your letter 
