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New York, where he became well known as a sportsman. In 

 1840 he was residing at Fishkill-on-Hudson, now known as 

 Mount Beacon, on an estate owned by his father-in-law. Sev- 

 eral years later he became much interested in the study of 

 pomology and made many admirable models of fruit for which 

 he was awarded numerous prizes in the shape of cups and medals. 

 This work was instrumental in securing his first appointment in 

 the government service under the title of "Entomologist and 

 Special Agent," this appointment being dated June 14, 1854. It 

 was subsequent to this date that all of Glover's illustrative 

 work on insects was accomplished. In 1859 he resigned his 

 position with the department because of friction with his 

 immediate superior and became a member of the faculty at the 

 Maryland Agricultural College (now the Maryland University), 

 as professor of natural sciences. Glover's largest publication 

 known as "Illustrations of North American Entomology" was 

 begun about this time, He states that his "Journal or Field 

 Book" was written during this period for the use of the students 

 of the Maryland Agricultural College. The text of this latter 

 work is in Glover's chirography and was printed from litho- 

 graphic plates while the illustrations, consisting of 23 plates, 

 were etched on copper, intaglio. Only 45 copies were printed, 

 in some of which the plates were colored by hand. As Glover 

 himself says, the drawing in some of the illustrations is not all 

 that could be desired, nevertheless, if these plates could be made 

 easily available to beginners in entomology, they would still be 

 valuable in filling the purpose of which they were made, especi- 

 ally if the nomenclature were modernized. His publication 

 entitled "Cotton and the principal insects, etc., frequenting 

 or injuring the plant," was published in the same manner and 

 contains 22 plates, including illustrations, showing the diseases 

 of the plant as well as insect pests. The little textual matter 

 contained in the work is confined mainly to the legends for the 

 plates, which are very well done, although a little stiff. This is 

 especially noticeable in the attitudes of the caterpillars that 

 have been illustrated. Glover's greatest work, however, was 

 his "Illustrations of North American Entomology." The 

 bound copy of this work in the Congressional Library at Wash- 

 ington, D. C., contains 275 copper plates averaging some 20 

 figures to the plate. The text consists of nothing but the 

 names of the insects figured; there is not even an introduction 

 or preface to explain the author's ideas or purpose in presenting 

 the results of such enormous and painstaking labors in this 

 unique and absurd form. The orders Coleoptera, Orthoptera, 

 Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Hemiptera and Dip- 

 tera are represented. In the Coleoptera nearly 200 figures of 

 larval forms are given and in the Diptera numerous larvae are 

 figured. Not all the figures were drawn from life as many of 



