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TIIE BREACH BETWEEN LOEW AND SCIIINER 
sufficient state of preservation, are some of the obstacles to be met with in the study 
of the Chaetotaxy of the legs of Diptera. Nevertheless, difficulty is not an excuse 
for the complete neglect of useful characters, and repeated experience alone is apt 
to evolve the best method of utilizing them. 
XXI AN ACCOUNT OF THE BREACH BETWEEN LOEW AND 
SCIIINER 
The cause of the rupture which occurred in 1858 between the 
two eminent dipterologists was the intended publication by the Aus¬ 
trian State Printing-Office of an edition de luxe of the European 
Trypetae (“ Die europaischen Bohrfliegen ”) which appeared in 
Vienna in 1862 with the name of II. Loew as author, although, 
according to the original plan, it was to be the joint work of Loew 
and Schiner. Schiner published a separate paper: “ Die oster- 
reichischen Trypeten ” ( Verh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch., Wien, 1858), in 
the preface of which lie explained that, by an adroit manipulation at 
headquarters, Loew had compelled him (Schiner) to withdraw from 
any co-operation with him in the publication of “ Die europaischen 
Bohrfliegen.” As this estrangement between two leading dipter¬ 
ologists has had some importance in the history of dipterology, I 
have in this chapter given a detailed account of its origin and 
progress. In my “ Introduction ” (p. 20) there is an allusion to 
this very regrettable dissension. 
In one of his letters to me (March 17,1857) Loew, in describing 
his occupations in general, had mentioned the intended publication 
in the following terms : — 
“ Finally T have compiled materials for a large work on Trypetae, and 
worked out a portion of the text. It will he printed in the Imper. and Roy. 
State Printing-Office in Vienna, with magnificent photographic figures of the 
wings ; and will, after a rather long lapse of time, offer again to the public 
an entomological publication in Atlas-folio. Do not laugh at this enormous 
‘ magnification * of the little Trypetae ! The idea was not mine, but that 
of the State Printing-Office, which intended to issue samples of photographic 
plates (‘Muster von photographischen Abbildungen ’), and asked me to 
procure the necessary specimens (‘Objecte’) and to prepare the text. The 
first part embraces European Trypetae. The second will contain all the 
exotic species we can get hold of. In order to prepare the work for the 
second part, and, in general, to afford a basis for the determination of 
