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While upou this theme it mn,y be mentioned that several of Mr. 

 Glover's caricatures, made at an earlier period, were reproduced in 

 copper by himself for the amusement of his friends. Many others, not 

 so reproduced, and done in ink or pencil, show him to have been a 

 caricaturist of no mean pretensions. The drawing is frequently gro- 

 tesque and the action superb, while the satire is most pointed. The 

 caricature habit followed him through life, many examples having bee:u 

 made while he was entomologist of the Department of Agriculture. 

 These were more hastily drawn, however, and were destroyed as soon 

 as shown to a select circle of friends. But he was even more severe in 

 shafts of doggerel verse, which were often written upon the spur of the 

 moment, wholly impromptu, and by means of which he was able to hold 

 up to ridicule those (sometimes in high official position) who had of- 

 fended him. But he never allowed a duplicate copy to.be made, and it 

 is doubtful if there is one in existence. 



For several mouths Mr. Glover continued to reside in Washington, 

 and in the fall of the same year (1859) he entered the Maryland Agri- 

 cultural College as professor of natural sciences, though at a merely 

 nominal salary. Here he spent all of his time, when not engaged in field 

 work or in teaching and lecturing, in prosecuting the work on his re- 

 cently begun Illustrations of American Entomology, and in making a 

 collection of birds and insects. His life at the college was uneventful, 

 save that it gave him time to accomplish a vast amount of labor in two 

 important directions, and in April, 18G3, about nine years after his first 

 connection with the Agricultural Bureau of the Patent Office, he was 

 appointed United States Entomologist, under Hon. Isaac Newton, the 

 new Department of Agriculture having been established in 1862, and 

 he entered upon the duties of the office at one. 



His first reports, issued in 1863 and 1864, being for the most part 

 jjopular i^apers upon the more common insects injurious to vegetation 

 in the several orders, together with brief remedies for their destruction, 

 tell us little of his employment at this period. But we know that he 

 made a second beginning of his museum in August, 1864, the reports 

 of the time giving intimations of the new interest which was now ab- 

 sorbing his thoughts. Though the report for 1865 closes with another 

 popular i)aper (relating to the uses of insects from an economic stand- 

 point), the consideration of seeds, grains, fibers, silkworms, birds, poul- 

 try, and domestic animals, including Angora goats, explains the manner 

 in which a large share of his time was now occupied. He received con- 

 siderable assistance at this time from his confidential clerk, Mrs. L. 

 B. Adams, a lady of fine intellectual attainments, who had had some 

 experience in literary and editorial work, and who took a great inter- 

 est in the new museum. The first part of this report for 1865 gives evi- 

 dence of her assistance ; in fact the preparation of these documents was 

 the most difficult and irksome of Mr. Glover's duties as entomologist* 

 He always shirked the responsibility as long as possible, and when it 



