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title-page, a few introductory pages of classification, and catalogues of 
species with references accompanying each order. The slips of names 
(save the Lepidoptera) were pasted upon each plate just under the fig- 
ures, the page being of quarto size. Of these 12 copies, which were of 
course uncolored, 5 were sent to Europe, and 5 distributed here. Two 
other copies were sold with bis library afterwards. Several copies, in 
the hands of individuals or institutions, were later on ordered to be 
colored, the writer having bad the work done from Mr. Glover’s origi- 
nals, by a competent colorist. A list of institutions and individuals to 
whom these sets were sent was made by me at the time of the distribu- 
tion, but can not now be produced. One other formal publication, is- 
sued in 1877, should be mentioned. I refer to the compilation of refer- 
ences to the insects treated in his own and other reports, issued by the 
United States Department of Agriculture and by the Patent Office, to 
date of publication. It contains also a list of animal and vegetable 
substances injured or destroyed by the insects referred to, the entire 
volume making 103 pages, printed from stone, upon one side of the 
sheet, in fac-simile, uniform with his other publications. A few sets of 
his cotton plates were also distributed, bound up with a type-printed 
title-page and cover. 
While upon the history of Mr. Glover’s undertaking, it should be 
stated that among several plans looking toward the ultimate disposition 
of the work, in the event of its not being published prior to the author’s 
death, there were two plans, at least, entertained by him in the latter 
part of the centennial year, in which the United States Government 
was wholly ignored. The first of these, which considered leaving the 
work to some institution in England, with means to publish it, was 
hardly seriously contemplated ; for being a work upon American insects 
exclusively, it was not thought at all likely that it would claim the same 
interest in England as in America. The other plan did receive consid- 
eration to the extent of an inquiry of the authorities of Johns Hopkins 
University, in Baltimore, as to the acceptance of a trust fund to be left 
for the purpose of promoting the study of entomology. In response to 
this inquiry Mr. Glover learned that the consent of the trustees could 
be obtained by President Gilman to the acceptance of a given sum, to 
be known as the Glover fund, the donor to specify the manner in which 
he preferred the income to be spent, as follows: Either in promoting 
investigation, in publishing plates and texts, or in the delivery of lec- 
tures. But the plan was never consummated. 
At last came his sudden and prostrating illness, in the spring of 1878, 
and he retired from active labor of any kind. 
Regarding the sale of his plates—in January, 1879, during the third 
session of the Forty-fifth Congress, Mr. Glover first memorialized that 
body, proposing to transfer to the Government the entire series, together 
with the text of his entomological work. A special bill providing for 
the transfer was not introduced, but the memorial was referred to the 
Senate Committee on Agriculture. Professor Baird took great interest 
