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reason he received but scant justice. I have not been able to dis¬ 
cover any obituary notice of him, and it seems that none has been 
published. It is through my friend Ivowarz that I ascertained the 
place and date of his birth (Fronsberg, in 1813) ; he was therefore 
sixty years old at the time of his death. 
The Atlas-folio publication on Trypetae appeared in 1862, and 
it was in March of the same year that Loew, upon my asking his 
permission to describe some new North American Trypetae which 
I had discovered, and which I had a perfect right to describe 
without his permission, gave me this characteristic answer: 
“ Your frank question I answer with an equally frank confession 
of a foible of mine, that, in regard to this particular family, I am 
a little jealous of the publications of others! ” (Compare my “ In¬ 
troduction,” p. 20.) And this “ frank confession ” affords the 
explanation of Loew’s extraordinary conduct towards Schiner! 
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An Account of their Opposition to my new System of Diptera, fol¬ 
lowed by a Characterization of these two Dipteroloyists 
Professor Brauer was very wroth about my Chaetotaxy (compare 
above, Chapter XX), but after the little paper in the Ent. 
Monthly 3fag., London, 1891, p. 35-39 (128,1891), which threatened 
to upset his “ System,” his ire against the “ Entomographer ” and 
“ Catalogue-maker,” as he was pleased to call me, knew no bounds, 
and found expression in a paper, “ On the Families of Diptera,” which 
he read at the meeting of the Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft 
in Vienna on the 6th of May, 1891. An abstract of this paper, 
published under that date in the Proceedings of the Society, con¬ 
tains the following theses, which I translate verbatim: — 
“The incredible error of some entomographers [sic !], that the larvae of 
insects have no importance in classification.” 
“ The erroneous opinion that the position, the presence or absence, of the 
so-called ‘ macrochaetae ’ have any importance in the definition of families 
of Diptera, their importance being confined to species and genera, as hairy 
and bristly forms occur in every family.” (!) 
“ The systematic position of the Ptychopteridae. The characteristic 
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