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teren ” of 1840,153 (1896). An investigation of the circumstances 
under which Rob.-Desvoidy's two successive works on the Myo- 
daires were published is incorporated in the present “ Record ” 
(Part TT, Chapter XXIII). My account of the publication of the 
first of these works, the Myodaires, is based upon an apparently 
forgotten and most interesting document, the Report on Rob.-Des- 
voidy's manuscript, drawn up by the Committee of the Academy of 
Sciences in Paris in 1826, and signed by Latreille , Rumeril , Blain- 
ville, and Cuvier , the latter as Perpetual Secretary of the Academy 
at that time. 
Lately, I have published the following three critical papers: — 
(1) Notiz liber die Erstlingsarbeit Dumdril’s, etc., in the Verh. 
zool.-bot. Gresellsch ., Wien, 1900, p. 450-451, 166 of my “ List.” 
(2) Notice on the synonymy of Anopheles maculipennis , in 
the Ent. Monthly Mag., London, 1900, p. 281-282, 167 of my 
“ List.” 
(3) On the new nomenclature of the family Cecidomyiae, Ent. 
Monthly Mag., London, 1901, p. 40-43, 168 of my “ List.” 
I have attempted to justify the usefulness of such apparently 
laborious and tedious critical, historical, and bibliographical work 
in the following passage of my above-quoted paper: On the Terms 
Calyptrata and Acalyptrata, 157 (1897): “ A celebrated French 
painter, I believe it was Ingres , used to say: ‘ Le dessin est la 
probity de Part.’ So it may be said: ‘ Literature is probity in 
science.’ If during the last six or seven years I have spent a con¬ 
siderable amount of time in tedious researches in entomological 
literature, I had some reason for considering such researches as my 
special duty. I have the advantage of possessing a rather complete 
dipterological library, over the contents of which, by dint of indexes, 
extracts, and cross-references, I have acquired a certain (although 
still very insufficient) mastery. Another advantage which I enjoy 
consists in an almost absolute freedom in the disposal of my time. 
Under such favorable circumstances, it is much easier for me than 
it would be for others to fulfil some duties of drudgery, indispen¬ 
sable, among the deluge of literature, for maintaining a decent level 
of scientific probity. And I believe that my labor is not lost, so 
long as I am helping others to maintain that level.” 
