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high opinion of him largely vanished, and I thought of him for many 

 years simply as a very eccentric man whose personality and career 

 led support to the popular idea concerning all entomologists. In this 

 estimate, however, I did not do Glover justice. While it is true that 

 his principal interests seem to have been in his insect plates and in his 

 agricultural museum, he did some close and intelligent field study on 

 the insects of the orange and of cotton in the middle of the last cen- 

 tury, and his annual reports in the late i86o's and early 1870's con- 

 tain much interesting information. They were very unattractively 

 printed and not well illustrated, but were excellent records of entomo- 

 logical events, written by a competent pen wielded by a man who was 

 as thoroughly conversant with insects as almost any one of his time. 

 The matter in these records, had it been attractively displayed, would 

 have been quite as interesting as many of the notes published by 

 Walsh and Riley in the American Entomologist or as many that 

 appeared later in Insect Life. 



One cannot help wondering w)iat his contemporaries, Walsh or Fitch 

 or LeBaron, would have accomplished with similar opportunities. 



One paragraph that Glover wrote, in 1865, on his return from the 

 Paris Exposition of that year has been forgotten. Possibly it was 

 never noticed, and it has great significance in view of what has hap- 

 I)ened since. He wrote- — 



As European insects are liable at any time to be introduced into this country 

 in roots, bark, wood, grasses, and seeds, their nature and habits cannot be too 

 well studied or understood here. It is well known that several of the insects 

 most destructive to our crops are of European origin, and I would suggest that 

 all foreign seeds and plants imported by this department be subjected to a 

 careful investigation, and, if found to be infested by any new or unknown insects, 

 fumigation, or other thoroughly efficacious means of destroying them, should 

 be used before distributing them through the country. One pair of new noxious 

 insects will do more harm than hundreds of the well-known varieties, as the 

 progeny might commit their ravages unsuspected till they multiplied past the 

 possibility of extermination, while known and familiar ones would be watched 

 and guarded against. (Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, 1865, p. 88.) 



One good reason why Glover did not do more for economic ento- 

 mology is the fact that he had to do so many other things officially. 

 This was pointed out as long ago as 1865 by Walsh in one of his some- 

 what verbose but most readable articles in The Practical Entomolo- 

 gist. After stating that there had at that time been very few ento- 

 mologists employed by the general government or the State and that 

 even those who had been employed had so many other things to do, 

 he referred especially to Glover and to a statement that the latter 

 published in his report for 1863 to the effect that, aside from ento- 



