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whether it would be agreeable to me if you published descriptions 
of several Noitli American Trypetae. Of course it would be unbe¬ 
coming for me, in such a case, to propose any conditions to you. 
But your frank question I answer with an equally frank confession 
of a foible of mine, that, in regard to this particular family, I am 
a little jealous of the publications of others. Besides, we might 
easily come into conflict in our publications, as I have again, just 
now, described nine North American species.” 1 
This last pretext was of course futile, but Loew had given, a 
short time before (between 1858 and 1862), a striking illustration 
of his jealousy concerning Trypetae in his extraordinary behavior 
towards Schiner on the occasion of the publication of the volume: 
“ Die europaischen Bohrfliegen ( Trypetidae ).” The details of this 
incident, reproduced in Part II, Chapter XXI, already quoted 
above, show to what incredible extremes Loew’s “ foible ” could 
provoke him. 
Jealousy among the passions has a higher standing than envy. 
Jealousy presupposes possession; envy on the contrary betrays the 
want of it. Loew had every reason to be proud of his possession. 
Envious people (and especially envious entomologists) generally 
have but little to show. 
In regard to Loew I state here once for all that, while condemn¬ 
ing his injustice in the strongest terms, I do not mean to impugn 
his personal character as a man of truth and honor. Loew, without 
any question, was a very superior man, far superior to me in natural 
ability , as well as in learning. His colossal labors stand for him ; 
what I have done has been to place his work in a better light, and 
to give it a more distinct definition, which was due to history. But 
I have treated Loew’s unceremoniousness towards his colleagues 
with an equal unceremoniousness. If I, as a younger entomologi¬ 
cal colleague of his, represent him now as I knew him as a dipter- 
1 “ Sie fragen mich in Ilirem Briefe, ob es mir lieb ware, wenn Sie etliche N. Amer. 
Trypeten beschrieben. Es versteht sieli dass es mir nicht zukommt Ilmen in dieser 
Beziehung je eine Bedingung zu maclien. Doch will ich Ilmen auf die offene Frage 
ebenso offen meine Schwache bekennen, dass ich gerade in dieser Familie auf die 
Publicationen anderer etwas neidisrher Natur bin. Audi kdnnten wir in unseren 
Publicationen leicht zusammentreffen, da ich bereits wieder neun N. Amer. Arten 
beschrieben habe.” 
