60 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
had been sent by Judge Johnson, and that it might be identical 
with PuJex gallinarum. Mr. Lugger alluded to a similar injury 
inflicted on the chickens by a species of mosquito in parts of 
Louisiana. 
Mr. Dodge entertained the Society by giving his long-prom- 
ised account of the life and work of the late Mr. Townend Glover. 
Mr. Glover had always been a lover of Nature, but in his earlier 
years he led a wild life until he decided to settle down. He 
bought a place on the Hudson and began to be interested in en- 
tomology by taking care of his garden. He then began to write 
for local papers, and to picture insects in their various stages. 
Harris heard of Glover : they met, and a correspondence between 
them was carried on. At the suggestion of Harris and other en- 
tomologists Glover began to engrave his drawings, and from that 
time he conceived the idea of producing a great illustrated work 
on insects. After his visit to Florida he intended for some time 
to publish an octavo work on economic entomology, but he 
changed his plan to that finally adopted, viz., to arrange the in- 
sects according to orders. His earlier plates are much better 
than many of the later ones, when he engraved with great haste, 
producing plate after plate in very short time ; but his drawings 
were always and uniformly very careful and accurate. His man- 
uscript work on Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, which includes 
most of his original notes and observations, forms a nearly com- 
plete encyclopedia on these two orders, and is now in the pos- 
session of the Smithsonian Institution. By industrious work, 
and by keen power of observation, he had accumulated a vast 
amount of valuable original notes ; but, strangely enough, through- 
out all his publications he shrank from making use of his own 
notes, and always preferred to cite the " authorities." Mr. Dodge 
interspersed his account with narrating various incidents and anec- 
dotes illustrating the character of Mr. Glover, his mode of work, 
and the many peculiarities of his private and office life. 
Mr. Mann reminded the members that after the death of Dr. 
F. E. Melsheimer, in 1873, he had come into possession of the 
entomological manuscripts and library, and the remainder of the 
collections of Melsheimer, including some of the manuscripts of 
the elder Melsheimer, and the correspondence between Melsheimer 
and other entomologists of his day, such as Say, Harris, Halde- 
