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8. The comparison of type material by proxy does not 
tend to promote intellectual dishonesty among taxonomic 
workers. The exposing of concrete cases of dishonesty will 
do more to eliminate it than to abandon the use of type 
specimens. 
9. With respect to honesty and reliability taxonomists 
as a group, will compare favorably with any other selected 
professional group, and the implication that type speci- 
mens in general are unreliable, due to the dishonesty of 
taxonomic workers, is entirely unjustifiable. 
10. To eliminate type specimens and make the descrip- 
tion everything, would be to substitute dogma for science, 
to substitute authority for research, an intolerable alter- 
native. 
11. Some method should be devised by which type speci- 
mens would be made more accessible to taxonomic workers 
than they are at present. 
12. The practice of individual taxonomists in retaining 
types in their private collections is a distinct disadvantage 
to entomological taxonomy as a whole and should be dis- 
couraged. 
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Ent. Zeit. 89 :83-96. 1928. 
Reitter, Edm. fiber den eingeburgerten Missbrauch bei 
Beniitzung von entomologischen Typen. Wiener Ent. 
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