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have charge of the botanical garden. Harris' disappointment was 

 never voiced, and he continued his work in his quiet, efficient way, 

 all the time contributing articles on entomology and horticulture to 

 scientific and agricultural journals. He was an excellent botanist, 

 and this fact helped to make his entomological work broader and 

 sounder. American entomologists of today may well think with pride 

 of the man who was really the founder of applied entomology in 

 this country.' 



TowNEND Glover 

 (And His Biographer, C. R. Dodge) 



We are more fortunate in the case of Glover than we are with 

 any of the other leading early American entomologists in that we 

 have very full data concerning his life. For a number of years an 

 excellent writer and good entomologist, Charles Richards Dodge, 

 was associated with him in his work in Washington, grew to know 

 him intimately, listened to his reminiscences on many occasions, and 

 after his death wrote a full and very entertaining account, of his life 

 and work, which was published as Bulletin No. i8 of the Division 

 of Entomology (1888). 



Glover was the first entomologist of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture. He was born at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 20, 

 1 81 3. His father and mother were both English, and his father was 

 engaged in business in Brazil at the time of Townend's birth. The 

 mother died while Glover was yet an infant, and he was sent home 

 to England and placed in the charge of relatives at Leeds. Six years 

 later his father died. He had been supposed to be wealthy, but for 

 some reason when the estate was settled it was found to be a modest 

 one. 



As a boy, Glover was sent to a private school of high reputation, 

 and began at an early age to make a collection of insects which he 

 prepared and mounted with great skill. But his taste for nature was 

 not a specialized one ; he was interested in small animals and birds 

 and plants, and this general interest in nature continued throughout 

 his life. From his early childhood he was singularly apt with his 

 pencil, which he chiefiy employed in caricaturing people about him, 

 a propensity which is said to have got him frequently into trouble. 

 Much later in life he continued the caricaturing hal)it, and while he 



* An interesting article with the title " The Work and Times of Doctor 

 Harris," by R. P. Dow, may be found in the Bulletin of the Brooklyn Ento- 

 mological Society, Vol. 8, pp. 106-118, December, 1913. 



