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THE BREACH BETWEEN LOEW AND SCHINER 
the figures of the wings would have been finished. At the end of 1857 this 
condition had been fulfilled, the fiuished plates had received the approba¬ 
tion of Loew, and moreover sixty-three single wings, all from my collection, 
had been photographed. Notwithstanding this, Loew had, up to that time, 
not sent a single line of the text. Constant urging on my part had no other 
result than to call forth repeated apologies from Loew, who, in the mean¬ 
time, without informing me of it, had applied directly to the Imperial 
Printing-Office, proposing an arrangement of the plates different from that 
which had been agreed upon between us, and, under the pretext that under 
my supervision the undertaking was not progressing, — had claimed the 
right of directing it alone from Meseritz ! 
“ Under such circumstances I had to choose between two alternatives, 
either to insist upon the rights conferred upon me by the confidence of 
Hofrath von Auer, and to dismiss a co-operator whom I had myself proposed, 
and who now attempted to oust me ; or to abandon the whole business to 
Loew alone, and to withdraw from it in quiet resignation. I preferred the 
latter course and imparted my decision to Mr. Hackel, who had been sent 
to me on this business. I wrote at the same time to Dr. Loew, telling him 
that I reserved to myself the right to make known to my colleagues the 
cause which had induced me to give up my co-operation in the Monograph, 
which had already been publicly announced as our joint work at home and 
abroad. To Herr v. Auer, who would have certainly sustained my claims 
in this case, I explained my resolution with the assurance that after my 
withdrawal I left the undertaking in the hands of Loew, which were the 
best possible for it.” 
Scliiner goes on explaining that after his manuscript had been 
returned to him by Loew, he decided to publish it in the form of 
an anticipated instalment of his “ Diptera Austriaca.” He fore¬ 
shadows at the same time a future work on Diptera which would 
be, for the dipterological fauna of Austria, what Redtenbacher’s 
work was for Coleoptera. He fulfilled this promise a few years 
later by the publication of his “Fauna Austriaca. Diptera” (1862- 
1864). 
This straightforward, detailed, and evidently truthful account 
of the whole transaction, given by Scliiner, must have taken Loew 
by surprise, lie probably had expected that his good-natured and 
modest friend would keep silent. The frenzied but impotent 
wrath which he gave vent to in His letter to me (and probably to 
other correspondents) was a sudden explosion. Rut that was all! 
lie never attempted publicly to vindicate himself against Schiner's 
