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TOWNEND GLOVER. 



Born Aug. 1S12, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

 Died 7 Sept. 1883, in Baltimore, Maryland. 



Among the recent deaths of naturalists 

 we have now to chronicle that of Professor 

 Townend Glover, which occurred in Balti- 

 more, Maryland, 7 September 18S3, at the 

 residence of his adopted daughter, Mrs. 

 Daniel Hopper. 



Prof. Glover w"as born of English parents, 

 at Rio de Janeiro, on the nth lor 12th) of 

 August 1812, and consequently at the time of 

 his death was in his seventy-second year. Me 

 received his early education in England, 

 completing his studies in Germany, after 

 which his roving disposition brought him to 

 North America, where, for a time, his horse, 

 his rod or gun were almost constant conipan- 

 ions. After marriage he settled at Fishkill- 

 on-the-Hudson, devoting himself to amateur 

 gardening and horticulture, and it was here 

 that his tastes for entoniologj' were develop- 

 ed. About 1S53 he became connected with 

 the Bureau of agriculture, then a division of 

 the United States Patent office, spending sev- 

 eral years in the south, — at one time visit- 



ing Demerara for the purchase of sugar-cane 

 for government experiment, — studying the 

 habits of the cotton and orange insects, of 

 which little had then been written, besides 

 employing his time in other ways. The re- 

 sults of these investigations, as published in 

 the reports of the Patent office from iS,-54 t° 

 1858, are already well known to entomo- 

 logists. Just prior to the war. Mr. Glover 

 accepted a professorship in the Maryland 

 agricultural college, where his great work 

 on entomology was begun, he having pre- 

 viously learned engraving ofMr. Gavitt, of 

 Albany, with this object in view. Upon the 

 formation of the . present United States De- 

 partment of agricultui'e. he was appointed its 

 first entomologist, w"hich position he held 

 until the spring of 1S7S. when ill-health com- 

 pelled him to rest from his labors. 



An observer contemporaneous with Harris, 

 his first writings appeared in the Cultivator 

 and similar journals of the time, though the 

 great mass of his notes of investigation and 

 observation were never given to the world, 

 but remained locked in his work on American 

 entomology, which he had hoped to complete 

 and publish in his life-time. His "work" 

 was his dream, and here for years he accumu- 

 lated a mass of interesting facts, the publica- 

 tion of which, as discovered, w-ould have 

 made his name as an observer great indeed. 

 Some of these facts have been given to the 

 world in his publisheij reports as United 

 States entomologist, but the majority were 

 withheld from publication, — awaiting the 

 completion of his work — until, from time to 

 time, many of his interesting discoveries 

 were re-discovered and published by the 

 army of careful observers who have come 

 after him, and the credit has thereby been 

 lost to him. Perhaps it was his over consci- 

 entiousness which kept him from "rushing 

 into print," for he often underrated his own 

 judgment in citing the histories of insects 

 he had carefully reared and observed, rather 

 preferring to give the experience of another 

 with full credit, than to use his own material. 



