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the Trypetidae, figures of the types of Wiedemann and other authors will be 
made ; most of the drawings are finished, and several already lithographed; 
the editing and the composition of the text has been undertaken by my 
friend Schiuer in Vienna. It would afford me great pleasure to receive 
from you North American species for the great work on Trypelae,” etc. 
When Scliiner’s accusation appeared, Loew called my attention 
to it in a long letter of March, 1859 (the letter bears several suc¬ 
cessive dates), in which he gave me the following explanation of 
the occurrence : — 
“ In the last quarterly issue of the Vienna Zool.-bot. Gesellschaft you will 
find a very malignant attack of Schiner against me, in which he accuses me 
of several proceedings of such a nature that any decent man would hence¬ 
forth feel disinclined to have anything to do with me. I should be ashamed 
if even one of his defamatory accusations was true. It is very distasteful 
to me to take part in such personal squabbles, and doubly distasteful when 
they are carried on with such dishonorable weapons as in the present case. 
I hope, however, to get out of this difficulty without any harm to myself 
(‘ Hoffentlich werde ich es, ohne mir etwas zu vergeben, aucli bier umgehen 
konnen ’). First of all, I have written to the head-quarters of the Society 
and drawn their attention to the fact that it is not customary to accept for 
publication in the ‘Transactions ’ of a Society such a kind of invective with¬ 
out first hearing the attacked party ; and next, by sending them Dr. Schiner’s 
letters to me, I have proved that his statements are not only entirely un¬ 
founded, but that they are deliberate perversions of the truth and lies 
(‘ Liigen ’). Finally, I have required that a publication from head-quarters 
should, in their own name, declare in some appropriate place in their Pro¬ 
ceedings, that the produced letters of Schiner have convinced them of the 
unveracity of his statements, and at the same time that they should express 
their decided disapproval of the untimely publication of his accusations in 
their ‘ Transactions.’ I shall at first wait for an answer. Should the 
required satisfaction in a becoming form be refused, then I shall, of course, 
feel compelled to obtain it myself, and I shall certainly do it in the most 
effective manner (‘ eclatantester Weise ’). You see that, even in peaceful 
entomology, it is often difficult to avoid strife, especially when one has to do 
with people who are less concerned about the substance of the question 
than about the satisfaction of petty personal vanities. I do my best not to 
be disgusted with the whole matter by such foulness (‘ Stankereien ’)•” 
Loew’s protest in 1859 does not seem to have had any further 
consequences. The only trace of it I find in literature is that 
Loew, from that time, conceived an intense rancor against Schiner, 
