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be allowed the largest liberty. Strong in his opinions, preferring that 

 his own suggestions should take precedence of the suggestions of oth- 

 ers whom he thought less thoroughly informed upon a given subject, he 

 was never unreasonable save when the views of others ran counter to 

 his prejudices, and then he was as inflexible as iron. A little child could 

 lead him, but a regiment of soldiers could not drive him. 



In disposition he was serious but rarely melancholy or cynical. On 

 \he contrary, he had a rare fund of humor and a keen sense of the ridicu- 

 lous, appreciating a joke whether at his own expense or the expense 

 of a Mend, and never losing an opportunity for its enjoyment. His sa- 

 tire was pointed, his sarcasm cutting, the most common modes of ex- 

 pression being caricature and verse, in either of which he was very 

 ready. But he could also write very pleasant verse in a humorous vein 

 when wrought up to his subject, two examples of which, in my posses- 

 sion, "The Velocipede" and "A Valentine" (and very personal to the 

 writer) are highly-prized mementoes. "He never forgot a kindness," 

 and it was not easy for him to forgive an injury, nor did he ever regain 

 confidence in those who deceived him or endeavored to use him. Of a 

 jealous nature, he was sometimes suspicious, and like many others with 

 this disposition, he was quick-tempered, and his anger, when aroused, 

 for the time being was almost uncontrollable. 



Susceptible to the world's praise, he shrank from its censure, which 

 may be given as one reason for his never having described an insect. 

 Mr. Glover could never have been a specialist. While recoguizing the 

 importance of, and necessity for, technical work to the end of settling 

 the vexed quesliious of classification and synouomy, he had no patience 

 with those whom he designated as " species grinders," and in his private 

 discourse was often quite denunciatory in his criticisms of their work. 

 He often made the boast that he had never named an insect, and as often 

 declared it to be his opinion that many of the existing species in our 

 lists were but varieties. In his entomological work generally he was 

 exceedingly cautious in making statements and averse to "rushing 

 into print ; " he often underrated his own judgment iu an endeavor to 

 be on the side of fact, and he was always just in giving credit to others. 



In his habits of living he chose to be untrammelled by the conven- 

 tionalities of custom, attending to necessities of existence in a way that 

 offered the least personal inconvenience to himself. So the man who 

 from having moved in the cultivated society of his home on the Hud- 

 sou, had in the performance of duty come to " herd with negroes and 

 Indians in Demerara, where a white man is as good as a darkey," or 

 summered in the Florida swamps " with pet alligators and rattlesnakes," 

 found it no hardship to prepare a simple breakfast while the wax was 

 hardening upon his copper plate, or to eat it, while penjhauce the acid 

 was eating into the shining metal. His walk at sundown aud his restau- 

 rant dinner later, his chief mental and physical recreation, gave him 

 zest for his evening's work. 



