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As Mr. Glover finally sold his plates to the Goverumeut (he gave his 

 manuscripts for nothing), the question has more than once been asked 

 of me if he ever employed liimself upon them in any way during 

 the hours of official dnty. To this question there is but one answer. 

 No ! Mr. Glover himself appreciated the force of the suggestion and 

 the possibility of such a charge being made; and, not to be misunder- 

 stood in the matter, he rarely lost an opportunity to explain to visitors, 

 while showing his work, that it had all been done " outside of ofiQce 

 hours, before 9 o'clock and after 3." Naturally the phrase in time be- 

 came stereotyped. 



The closing of this period marks the opening of his i)ublishing period, 

 as may be termed the years from 1872 to 1878. For many years he had 

 talked of publication, but, as has been shown, it was always a thing of 

 the futnre. As far back as 3860 the matter of publication had been 

 discussed with his associates, and with the accumulated material often 

 years it seemed to his friends that the time had come if ever to bring 

 the work before the world. The late Professor Baird, a firm friend to 

 Mi\ Glover during a period of twenty-five years, was very enthusiastic 

 about the matter, and upon several occasions stated his willingness to 

 secure a publisher. But the engraver author was not ready. The work 

 had reached such magnitude that he wished to complete it from his 

 stand-point of completion, and make it an exhaustive illustrated ency- 

 clopaedia of American entomology, that would find a place in every 

 large library in the land. He did not wish to issue the entire work as 

 a private venture with a probable contingency of great personal pe- 

 cuniary loss, because it was his dream that it should be published by 

 the Government and be widely distributed gratuitously. The idea 

 had been in his mind for years, and he frequently told me, in conversa- 

 tions of a confidential nature, that in the event of his death he should 

 leave the entire work to the United States Government any way ; and 

 at one time he seriously considered the expediency of bequeathing 

 with it a portion of his private fortune to complete it, and to insure its 

 publication in a proper manner after his death. 



The talk concerning publication was not without its influence. The 

 preparation of the pkites had been known to the entomological public 

 for so long a time, and there was now so little possibility of publishing 

 the work in its entire ty in the immediate future, its author forsaw the 

 advantage of, if not the necessity for, a present recognition of the im- 

 portance and utility of the undertaking, which could best be secured by 

 preliminary publication of some of the plates themselves. It must be 

 admitted, too, that he was actuated toward publication in this manner 

 by a secondary motive — other than a wish to bring to the scientific 

 world a knowledge of the value and immensity of his undertaking — 

 and, prompted no doubt by his desire for the world's golden opinion, a 

 wish to know the exact position his work would obtain in entomologi- 

 cal literature. 



