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the case of D. cancer and 0. Mitchelhe^ which Dr. Dyar most magnani- 

 mously and generously loaned me for the purpose. I made acknowledg- 

 ment to the Museum in my thesis. 



Five United States species out of 26 northern species (which include 

 my own material as mentioned above), proved to be Carnegie, and two 

 were doubtful. Some West India species proved to be thus classed, and I 

 have omitted all West India or other extralimital forms entirely. I was 

 informed that '' if I reworked my keys from other specimens there would 

 be no objection," but that " I might find some difficulty in so doing." I 

 therefore went to the New Jersey and New York State collections, entirely 

 reworked and radically changed my keys, and had the advantage of better 

 series of specimens, also several species not found at all in the National 

 Museum collection, as well as those which were in the latter collections. 

 Please note. Dr. Dyar's keys, including all the Museum and the Carnegie 

 species said to be in my keys, were published long before I began to 

 rework my keys ; that I publish no new species at all, and " describe " no 

 larvae not already published by Dr. Dyar or some one else. My only crime 

 seems to be that I have founded keys mainly on characters of which he 

 makes little or no use, and presume to differ from his ideas and evolve a 

 few of my own. This is the first time I am aware that I was supposed to 

 have any connection with the Monograph beyond drawing for it. Although 

 Dr. Dyar did occasionally request me to differentiate species when he 

 could not, I never made agreement to do such work. One would naturally 

 suppose that such work would be done by the "expert" himself, inasmuch 

 as he assumes the credit for it. 



9. As for "redrawing figures 'after office hours," I have already stated 

 where and when my figures were drawn. Further, Dr. Dupree neither sold 

 nor gave the drawings made for him to the Carnegie Institute, but merely 

 lent them, with the understanding that I should copy them for the Mono- 

 graph and be paid for my time. He reserved the right of first publication. 

 He never took a cent from the Institute, because he wished to publish in- 

 dependently. I have not copyrighted any drawings made for the Mono- 

 graph, only the originals made for Dr. Dupree from his specimens. The 

 fact that drawings are copyrighted of which copies were made for the 

 Monograph does not hinder Dr., Dyar from the publication of these copies. 

 To be sure that it would not, I have plainly indicated in my Introduction 

 that I expected them to be published in the Monograph (p. XIX.). I have 

 no doubt that Dr. Dyar would have liked to prevent the publication of my 

 book, but evidently could not. He certainly knew that I was at work on 

 one, since I am told that the Duprees were requested, shortly after the 



