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behavior towards him in this instance. This account, which pro¬ 
voked Loew so much, appeared in the Preface of the paper “ Die 
bsterreichisclien Trypeten,” published by Schiner in the Verh. zool.- 
bot. Gresellsch., Wien, 1858, p. 635. Schiner says: — 
“ The present instalment treats of the Aealyptrate Genus Trypeta, an 
interesting group of the great family Muscidae. According to my former 
announcement, the Dolichopodidae should have followed now; this early 
publication of the Trypetidae is due to a particular cause, of which I shall 
give a brief account here. 
“ The experiments made at the Imperial State Printing-Office, with the 
co-operation of Dr. Ernst Heeger, for the purpose of reproducing by photog¬ 
raphy objects of natural history, magnified by the microscope, had been 
so promising and successful that Hofrath von Auer, Director of this de¬ 
partment, conceived the project of publishing a larger work to show the 
practical advantages of microtypical illustrations of objects of natural his¬ 
tory. It was upon my suggestion that the choice fell upon a Monograph 
of Trypetae , the wings of which offered the greatest variety of patterns for 
microscopical reproduction. Herr von Auer entrusted me with the com¬ 
pilation of the text, and acceded to my further proposition to invite for 
co-operation the well-known monographer of Trypetae , Director Loew in 
Meseritz. Loew accepted my invitation with pleasure and showed at first 
a great deal of interest in the undertaking. 
“ In the meantime the Trypeta- wings, furnished by me, and from my col¬ 
lection, had been reproduced by the microtypical process, and during the 
meeting of naturalists in 1856 the undertaking was so far advanced that 
it became possible to produce before this Assembly some prints of the mag¬ 
nified wings, as well as the general plan of the publication. 
“ Director Loew, who was present at the meeting, showed this time less 
interest in the undertaking, and did not even attempt to have an interview 
with Herr von Auer in regard to the matter. This made me the more 
eager to press the business, and to stimulate my co-operator for the cause. 
I insisted especially upon a division of the work between us ; I would have 
undertaken the faunistic department, that is, all that concerns local occur¬ 
rence and life-habits of the European and extra-European Trypetae and their 
synonymy, — in a word, the compilation of the materials. Loew would 
have had to provide the final systematic distribution and the drawing up 
of diagnoses and of descriptions. 
u At the beginning of 1857 I had accomplished my share of the task of 
preparing the text, and had sent my finished manuscript to Loew. He 
gave me the assurance that at least a portion of the text, ready for the 
press, would be provided by him by the time when at least three plates with 
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