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plates by the government a few months before he died. His death 

 occurred September 7, 1883. 



When I came to Washington in November, 1878, Glover was still 

 on the salary roll of the Department of Agriculture. He lived on 

 Twelfth Street just above F, on the east side of the street, but I do 

 not recollect that he ever came to the Department, and I do not 

 know how long he was paid — -probably only for a few months. I 

 did not meet him personally until after Professor Riley resigned in 

 the spring of 1879 and Professor Comstock had come to the Depart- 

 ment. But after Comstock came, at Glover's invitation, we paid him 

 an afternoon call. It was a unique experience. His rooms and their 

 contents have been carefully described b}- Dodge on pages 22 and 

 23 of his account. They resembled a crowded museum. Glover was 

 then 66 years of age, but appeared to me like a very old and decrepit 

 man. As I recollect him, he was, I should say, five feet six inches 

 in height, rather bent in figure, but fairly well nourished — he might 

 have weighed 155 pounds. He moved about with ease, and took a 

 boyish delight in showing us his curiosities. Moreover, he insisted on 

 our taking a glass of wine and a bit of cake with him. He told us 

 that his eyes had failed him to such an extent that he could hardly 

 continue his work of etching, but that he was busily engaged in listing 

 his figures. 



It was probably very soon after this that his adopted daughter and 

 her husband insisted upon moving him and his possessions to Balti- 

 more. Dodge paints a sorrowful picture of Glover's unhappiness in 

 Baltimore and says that he was hurt to the cjuick by the apparent 

 indifl^erence of his former friends. I had no inkling of this at the 

 time. Had I known of it, it would have given me great pleasure to 

 call on him on the several occasions when I visited Prof. P. R. Uhler 

 at the Peabody Library in Baltimore during the next year or two ; 

 and I am sure that Professor Uhler, who was the kindest of men, 

 would have done his best to cheer the old man had he known how he 

 felt. When he died (September, 1883) Professor Riley and I went 

 over from Washington to attend the funeral. We saw no other ento- 

 mologist there, nor did any of his old friends from Washington 

 attend. 



Glover's biographer, Charles Richard Dodge, ranks as an entomolo- 

 gist since he was for some time Mr. Glover's assistant. He began to 

 help him first in 1867. He was the only son of the Honorable J. R. 

 Dodge, for many years the Statistician of the Department. Dodge 

 apparently did not work with Glover consistently, since he graduated 

 from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in the class of 

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