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THE BREACH BETWEEN LOEW AND SCHINER 
and gave vent to it in a series of virulent attacks upon him per¬ 
sonally, and against his publications. (Compare Wien. Ent. 
Monats., 1864, p. 122-123, footnote; ibid., p. 249-255; Berl. Ent. 
Zeit., 1864, p. 334-346; ibid., 1865, p. 356.) The first of these 
attacks especially is a curious exhibition of impotent rage exhaled 
in expressions and images in the worst possible taste. This seems 
to have been the whole amount of satisfaction which Loew received 
after his threat to obtain it in “ eclatantester Weise,” and after five 
years of excitement! Schiner’s rejoinders are comparatively calm 
and dignified {Wiener Ent. Zeit., 1864, p. 296-301; Berl. Ent. Zeit., 
1865, p. 125). 
The malignant and most unfair criticism of the first instalments 
of Schiner’s “Fauna Austriaca” in Gerstaecker’s Bericht . . . Jalire 
1859 und 1860, p. 277, was likewise written by Loew; but the first 
part of it, on p. 276, is the work of Gerstaecker himself, and is 
quite fair. 
For Loew, after some time, the charm of novelty attaching to his 
Atlas-folio Trypeta-work had been exhausted. He, whose imagi¬ 
nation in 1857 revelled in the preparation of a second volume, 
while the first had not yet been written, wrote me four years later 
(June 3, 1861) that the work was progressing slowly; “I have, 
unfortunately, only four sheets ready” (“Leider habe ich nur vier 
Bogen fertig ”). The first volume was to contain twenty-seven 
sheets. 
In the Preface of the Atlas-folio on Trypetae which is dated June 24, 1862, Loew 
says (line 9 from top): “Die gegenwartige im December 1860 ahgeschlossene 
Arbeit,” etc. This statement is in glaring contradiction to the above-quoted 
passage in Loew’s letter to me dated June 3, 1861 (that is, nearly six months 
later) : “ I have, unfortunately, only four sheets ready.” The last letter deserves, 
of course, more credence than the Preface of June, 1862, and this contradiction 
shows to what straits Loew had been reduced by this unfortunate “Atlas-folio” 
business! 
Between 1861 and 1862 Loew seems to have made a resolute 
effort, for, in a letter dated November 21-I)ecember 18, 1862, he 
wrote : “ The tiresome Trypeta-work (‘ das leidige Trypeta-Werk ’) 
in Vienna is finally finished.” Under such circumstances the pub¬ 
lication of a second volume was out of question. 
In justice to Schiner, I shall reproduce now his account of Loew’s 
