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Townend Glover to make the illustrations for his work, stating 

 at the same time that "Sonrel, a Swiss engraver, is the <ml\ 

 person who can do such work at all well, and he, being a foreigner 

 and not speaking English well, it will be difficult to get along 

 with him." Glover afterwards declined to undertake this work 

 and it was assigned to Sonrel with very happy results. Another 

 admirable example of Sonrel's work are the plates accompanying 

 Louis Agassiz' volume on Lake Superior, two of which, plates 7 

 and 8, depict specimens of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera respec- 

 tively. 



The illustrations for Harris' Insects Injurious to Vegetation 

 consist of plates printed from steel engravings and text figures 

 from engravings on wood. Charles Flint states that Antoine 

 Sonrel made the drawings for the former and that Sonrel and 

 John Burckhardt were the authors of those for the wood-cuts, 

 but leaves us in doubt regarding the work with which each 

 should be credited. The blocks for the beautiful wood-engrav- 

 ings were cut by Henry Marsh, whose work is beyond all praise. 

 Except for Dr. Harris' brief mention of Sonrel nothing further 

 seems to be on record regarding him. I have drawn on the 

 resources of the Congressional Library as well as those of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture without finding a trace of this 

 artist. The standard reference works on artists and engravers 

 are silent so far as Antoine Sonrel is concerned but, be this as it 

 may, his work in connection with the Harris publication is 

 sufficient evidence that he was a craftsman of infinite skill. 



Of John Burckhardt who was Sonrel's colleague in this work, 

 no record has been found. 



The life of Townend Glover, first entomologist of the LI. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, is so well known through the excel- 

 lent biography by Charles Richards Dodge (Bulletin 18, Old 

 Series, Div. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agric.) that it seems hardly worth 

 while here to mention many of the details of his career. 



He was born at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Feb. 20, 1813, and died 

 in September, 1883, at Baltimore, Md. When but an infant 

 Glover was taken to Leeds, England, where he spent his boy- 

 hood and was educated in a private school. At the age of 20 he 

 was apprenticed to a firm of woolen merchants in Leeds, but on 

 reaching his majority, having been left a small fortune, went to 

 Germany and took up the study of painting, paying especial 

 attention to still-life work. As Glover was handicapped by 

 intensely myopic vision, naturally he was unable to paint in a 

 broad way, but this defect became actually advantageous in his 

 afterwork with insects as it enabled him to study and to draw 

 even small insects without artificial visual aid. After the lapse 

 of about two years Glover decided to visit relatives in America 

 and became so attached to this country that he remained here 

 permanently. After much travel he settled at \ew Rochelle, 



