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In 1871 be decided to bring out an author's editiou of the plates of 

 Orthoptera, which had recently been increased to thirteen by the addi- 

 tion of new Western material ; the new species described by Dr. Cyrus 

 Thomas and material furnished by Mr. Scudder and others forming 

 a considerable portion. An edition of 250 copies, large quarto, was de- 

 cided upon, and the letter-press was produced a single page at a time 

 at a small i)rinting office in the rear of a Seventh-street book-store in 

 Washington. The work was very incomplete, and does not in the 

 smallest degree represent or carry out the design followed in the prep- 

 aration of his mass of unpublished "manuscript notes." He does not 

 even fulfill the promise of his introduction. 



His table of classification occupies about half a page, and his notes 

 on food and habits of Orthoptera only two pages and a half, the remain- 

 der of the text, some five pages, being devoted to "lists of substances 

 injured," and lists of genera and species figured, or, in other words, to 

 the index. This is the published work on Orthoptera. In short, as a 

 work, so incomplete an d imperfect, and giving so little idea of what had 

 really been done by Mr. Glover in his twelve or more years of almost in- 

 cessant labor, that it is to be regretted that he published it in this 

 shape at all. To that extent it placed the author and his great work in 

 a false light, even though the gratuitous publication of a dozen or more 

 of admirable plates alone, with over two hundred figures of correctly 

 named insects in a some what neglected order, was a valuable contribu- 

 tion to the entomological literature of America and of the times. Not 

 over 50 copies of the work were bound (in paper), and these were pre- 

 sented to the prominent entomologists and scientific institutions of the 

 country. The remainder of the edition lay jnled in the office in sheets 

 for a long time; but was eventually disi)osed of for waste paper. 



Mr. Glover received many flattering letters and complimentary no- 

 tices following this initiatory publication, and a year later he took steps 

 to bring out a small edition of the Diptera in somewhat the same man- 

 ner, though rather more full and complete as to the text or letter-press. 

 This, when- published in 1874, was a work of 133 pages, printed from 

 stone, upon plate paper, upon one side of the sheet only, the letter-press 

 being a fac-simile of the author's wonderfully clear chirography, and it 

 was accompanied by 10 plates and their explanations. The history of 

 this publication is interesting. 



The publication of th e Orthoptera had been unsatisfactory even to Mr. 

 Glover, so much so that he contemplated a new edition, and in the 

 Diptera he aimed to produce something more complete and valuable. 

 The preparation of the manuscript was finished in the summer of 1873, 

 and in September it was sent to Dr. Le Baron for his opinion upon its 

 merits, and for revision and correction. 



September 14 the doctor wrote Mr. Glover a short note, acknowledg- 

 ing receipt. He states that he has had a couple of days to look it over, 

 and that he is pleased and surprised at the amount of interesting and 



