“ He has not constantly regarded the strict law of priority to which we have been accustomed to defer, in the application of generic and trivial names. Fallen and Fabricius seem to weigh with him sometimes more than age or usage, and rules are made to yield to predilection." Zetterstedt was seventy and had most likely decided to abandon perfection so as to enable him to proceed with "a like history of the Hemiptera which we are authorized to expect from his hand". Here we have to choose between quantity (Zetterstedt) and quality (Haliday) . The same is true of other prolific authors. ”
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“ Such completeness is seldom evident even today and demonstrates as much as any other part of Haliday's work his grasp of fundamental principle. There were few such. In Diptera, Zetterstedt perhaps comes closest in this most important arena as Haliday recognized. ”
“ The Odonata and Orthoptera have been transferred to modern cabinets in the general collection for safety. The collection contains some Types of Lepidoptera, described by J. Curtis, collected during Sir John Ross's second voyage in search of a north-west passage,1829-33, a few Selys Odonata Types, some syntypes of Walker Chalcidoidea, a number of Haliday specimens, insects collected in France by Curtis in 1830, and some taken by P. Walker in Sweden and Norway in 1836. ”
