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NOTICE OF FERDINAND KOWAEZ 
lifetime, was less conspicuous. Nevertheless, liis merit is very 
great and his name should be inseparable from that of Loew. For 
this reason I place this unpretending notice about him next to my 
“ Characterization of Loew as a Dipterologist.” 
Ferdinand Ivowarz was born in Plan (Bohemia), February, 
1838, and followed the career of an employe in the Imperial Aus¬ 
trian Telegraph Department. My high appreciation of his publi¬ 
cations induced me to pay him a visit in May, 1878, at Asch, a 
little town in the northwest corner of Bohemia, where he was 
“ Kaiserlich-Koniglicher Telegraphen-Beamte ” (Telegraph Offi¬ 
cial). I noticed the admirable order which prevailed in his 
collection of European Diptera, in which all the families were 
worked up with the greatest care. When visiting Vienna soon 
afterwards, I took occasion to call the attention of' Kowarz’s 
chief, Brunner von Wattenwyl, to this remarkable subordinate of 
his, and to his merit as a dipterologist. Brunner, himself a dis¬ 
tinguished entomologist, and well known for his publications on 
Orthoptera , thanked me for this communication, and soon after¬ 
wards promoted Ivowarz to a much more important post, as head 
of the Post and Telegraph Office (“ K. K. Postverwalter ”) in the 
well-known watering-place Franzensbad in Bohemia, which posi¬ 
tion Ivowarz occupied for more than twenty years, until his 
retirement with a pension. This promotion was an advantage 
for the material welfare^ of Ivowarz (who was married and had 
children), although the duties connected with his new post left 
him less time for his entomological occupations. 
Loew was in constant correspondence with Ivowarz, and even 
had paid him a visit at Asch, but did not seem to appreciate him 
as he deserved, and spoke of him in a patronizing tone of superi¬ 
ority. Kowarz’s first publication ( Verb, zool.-bot. Gesellsch ., Wien, 
18G7), “ Beschreibung sechs neuer I)ipteren-Arten ” (six pages 
with woodcuts), is that of a trained dipterologist. 11 is successive 
papers on Loew’s favorite family Dolichopodidae (“ Dipterologische 
Notizen,” 1868; Chrysotus , 1874; Medeterus , 1877; Aryyra und 
Leucostola , 1878; the Dolichopodidae in Lis “ Beitrage zu einem 
Verzeichnisse der Dipteren Bolimens,” 1884; Sympycnus , 1889) 
show a treatment more careful than that of Loew, and afford an 
