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but tliere are critical remarks that cannot be faced too squarely or 

 raet too boldly, When I wrote "A 3'Ouiig- Danish zoologist has 

 recently foimd in Siam a distinct species of Koenenia, which Dr. 

 Ha>isen is to describe", I was not aware tliat this bit of information 

 was a secret existing between Dr. Hansen, the Danish investigator 

 and Dr. Wheelee, not to be divulged nntil Dr. Hansen liimself 

 was ready to electrify the world with it. That it was contained 

 in a letter was not impressed on my mind when I included it in my 

 paper, and it might as well have been left out, thoug-h one would 

 think that the chief merit of my paper lay in the news this extract 

 contained, for Dr. Hansen writes, "But when the author publishes 

 this extract from one of my letters as a contribution to the knowledge 

 of the distribution of the order, it had been proper to publish more 

 details from my letters to Prof. AVheeler and herseif". I have never 

 received a letter from Dr. Hansen. In one letter to Dr. Wheelee 

 I remember he was so kind as to offer some sugg-estions about 

 obtaining specimens of Thelijphonus which he thought should be 

 studied in comparison with Koenenia. The only other letter to 

 Dr. Wheelee of which I am cognizant I think would not improve 

 any contribution sent out from the University of Texas; in fact 

 I do not think it -'would have been proper" to have published 

 anything from it since it was consumed partially in telling 

 what he was going to do and what he did not wish others 

 to do; and partially in giving a list of animals to be collected 

 here in Texas and sent to him ... he did not say for the same 

 reward that I have received for the Koenenia which I collected 

 and gave Dr. Wheelee to send him, or for the same reward 

 that Mr. Böener received for furnishing him the only perfect 

 specimens of K. mirahilis which he has seen. There is only one 

 reward to be had and which is always expected under such condi- 

 tions, and that is the just consideration of results. When Dr. Hansen 

 concludes his postscript by "Perhaps these critical remarks will be 

 found a little too lengthy. But I have wished that the base which 

 I hoped to have laid down for the systematic study of the forms of 

 this difftcult Order should be as solid as possible in all respects", 

 he seems not to understand that I too and scores of others have 

 this interest at heart as much as he. We merely wish to do our 

 part in laying the foundation, when the material at hand makes it 

 most expedient for us to do so, but we do not feel equal to doing this 

 without the goodwill, the aid, and the special direction of those more 



