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all, from Yol. I, 1842, to Vol. XIY, 1860, eighteen years had 
elapsed. The fourteen volumes contain 6609 pages, which gives 
an average of 472 pages per volume. — Osten Sacken.] 
XIX CAMILLO RONDANI AND HIS RELATIONS WITH LOEW 
C amillo Rfindani 1 was a descendant of a very old, noble 
family of Parma, which could boast of having produced men of 
distinction as early as the twelfth century. Among his ancestors 
was a painter of some renown, Francesco Maria Rondani (1490- 
1548). (“ La noblesse est une dignite due ala prdsomption que 
nous ferons bien, parceque nos peres ont bien fait.” Joubert, 
Pensdes, XVI, 54.) 
I paid a visit to Rondani in Parma in the middle of May, 1873. 
He made a very favorable impression upon me, and struck me at 
once as being a perfect gentleman, and an experienced entomologist. 
Rondani was a contemporary of Loew in so far as he was born in 
1808, Loew in 1807 ; both died in the same year, 1879. An active 
intercourse between them by letters, or by exchange of specimens 
(like that between Zeller and Zetterstedt), would have been equally 
useful to science in general, and to the studies of both in particu¬ 
lar. The beginning of such an intercourse did indeed take place, 
but in the most unsatisfactory manner, and I am going to show 
that the fault was not on the side of Rondani. 
Rondani's scientific work was not confined to systematic and 
descriptive entomology alone ; he took a great interest in economic 
entomology , and acquired a measure of popularity by his numerous 
publications on noxious insects, and by his constant warfare against 
ignorance and superstition. (“His publications in this department 
are not only distinguished by the merit of learning, but also by 
their practical utility, and by the courage he showed in sustaining 
his own opinion against that which was current.” — M. Lessona, 
“ Camillo Rondani.”) 
The general esteem in which Rondani was held in Italy was mani - 
1 I am spelling here Rdndani with an accent on the first syllable, because he com¬ 
plained to me that many people pronounced his name wrongly, Rondani. 
