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me indicates that the author herself was the real critic. At her first visit to 

 his office, he showed her one of his wash-ink drawings of a larva. Although 

 she did not know the species, she told him that she was sure, from those 

 she did know, that he had omitted two hairs, indicating on the figure 

 where they ought to be. Mr. Knab vehemently denied the omission, protest- 

 ing that he had been extremely careful not to overlook a single hair. She 

 asked to see the specimen on which the figure was founded, and upon 

 examining it, the hairs were found, and Mr. Knab was manly enough to 

 acknowledge himself in the wrong ! 



3. "Mr. Coquillett only receives some, though inadequate, recogni- 

 tion. His name might have better assisted in gracing the title page." By 

 this it is evidently intended to imply that I wrote part of " Mosquito 

 Life." As a matter of fact, the MSS. of that book were written by Miss 

 Mitchell at her home in East Orange, N. J., and sent to the publishers 

 before she returned to Washington. I was in Washington all this time, as 

 the records of the Bureau of Entomology show, and neither wrote nor dic- 

 tated any part of the book. 



4. " A certain obtuseness of scientific conscience is, we think, re- 

 sponsible for this condition, and it has further led our author to publish 

 her work independently, although she- was employed to assist in the publi- 

 cation of the much-delayed Carnegie Institution Monograph, and had in 

 her hands for study the material collected for that work." She was not 

 employed to assist in the preparation of the text of the Monograph, and at 

 no time did she have in her hands the Carnegie material for study ; 

 during all the time she was at work on the Monograph I had charge of the 

 adults, while Dr. Dyar had control of the early stages. All she was 

 employed to do was to make drawings of some of the early stages and 

 details of the same, besides copying in charcoal some of the line drawings 

 she had previously made for Dr. Dupree, and which he had generously 

 loaned her for that purpose. During the period when she was drawing 

 for the Monograph, she devoted her spare time to completing a series of 

 keys to the North American mosquitoes, begun in Louisiana, intending to 

 use them as a thesis for the degree of M. S. in the George Washington 

 University. No secret was made of this, and, as a student of the above 

 University and as a citizen, she had right of access to the study-collection 

 of the Museum. The chaotic condition of the larva collection at that time 

 caused her unwittingly to incorporate in the keys a few species belonging 

 to the Carnegie collection. These species were not new at the time, and 

 Dr. Dyar's keys containing all of these and many other species were pub- 



