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CAMILLO RONDANI AND HIS RELATIONS WITH LOEW 
184G accepi,” etc. 1 Rondani thanks for the communication of one 
of Loew’s papers (it was “ Dipterologische Beitrage,” Yol. I, 1845, 
as results from the context), and complains of the difficulty he has 
in understanding his letter written in German: “Utinam tamen 
observationes tuas quae niagni pretii sunt mihi, sermone pro me 
scriberes faciliore, nam germanicum mihi sat est peregrinum. 
Rondani, having been originally educated for the clerical profes¬ 
sion, could write Latin fluently, and in that Loew probably was 
not able to follow him. Nevertheless I think that, with more 
good will on his part, this obstacle could have been overcome. 
In this first letter, Rondani answers Loew’s observations, accepts 
some of them, and rejects others; he complains especially of Loew 
having been led into error by the short notice in Isis about his 
genera of Cecidomyiae; “ Pauca in ‘ Iside ’ relata in opinionem 
erroneam te duxerunt,” etc. In his second letter (March 15, 1846) 
Rondani informs Loew that he sends him his publications, except¬ 
ing the “ Memoriae ” 1, 2, 3, and 5, of which he had no separate 
copies left (compare my Catalogue of Rondani’s works) ; he re¬ 
places them by manuscript extracts enclosed in the same letter, 
with tracings of the figures. 
In response to Rondani’s communication of his Essays, Loew 
published a review of them, marked No. I, in the Stett. Ent. Zeit ., 
1847, p. 146-147. The magisterial and patronizing style of this 
review was, in my opinion, somewhat unbecoming towards a con¬ 
temporary as to age, and even, I may say, an equal as to merit, 
because the Loew of 1847 was by no means the same as the Loew 
of a later period. In this review, Loew says (p. 146): “ The 
second paper (1840) contains a systematic subdivision of the Tipu- 
laria yallicola which the author splits (‘ spaltet ’) into Lestreminae 
and Cecidomyiinae , a splitting (Loew on purpose uses this con¬ 
temptuous expression ‘ Zersplitterung ’) in which the author will 
1 The cause of this delay of more than a year is not explained, but may have been 
due to the primitive conditions in which Rondani lived in Parma at that time. An 
instance of these conditions is the address of his letters to Loew : Palatinat de Posnanie, 
dans la Grande Polorjne, Posen. Rondani must have used a map of the eighteenth cen¬ 
tury, because Posen was annexed to Prussia in 1793, and before that time that part of 
the country was called “La Grande Pologne ” (Grosspolen), while the .southwestern 
part of Poland, with Cracow, was called “ La Petite Pologne ” (Klein-Polen). 
