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T do not know but that it is your iutentiou to have the work stereotyped, so that 

 you cau have additioual copies struck oli" hereafter ad libitum. If so, all right. But, 

 as I have before said, I can not bear the idea of having all the preparatory labor ex- 

 pended for so small a nninber of copies. Your work is of a popular and practical 

 character. It gives in a condensed form the greater part of what iskuown respecting 

 tbeDiptera, witli the additional advantage of being copiously illustrated by fig- 

 ures. The leading idea and aim of the work is that of popular distribution. The .'jO 

 copies will of course accomplish nothing of this. 



The manuscript was now sent to the publishers of the American Nat- 

 uralist, in Salem, for an estimate of the cost of printing. In December 

 Mr. Glover learned that Baron Osten Sacken had returned to America, 

 and at once wrote to him as one of his earliest friends in science, and 

 one whose valuable assistance in his dipterological studies he always 

 gratefully acknowledged, asking his advice in the matter. The follow- 

 ing IS an extract from his letter : 



I have just finished and sent to the printing establishment of Putnam & Co., to 

 find out what would be the expense of printing, which, if you approve, I shall do at 

 my own expense, and publish only 50 copies for gratuitous distribution to entomo- 

 logical societies, agricultural colleges, etc. Now, mistrusting my own knowledge ou 

 the subject, I fear I may have made some errors, Avhich, taken at the present time, 

 before printing is commenced, may readily be corrected, but which if suffered to ap- 

 pear in print would only lead to future mistakes in nomenclature, etc. I would es- 

 teem it a per.sonal favor if you would look the work over and make any corrections 

 you see tit, with your name attached, or without, as you wish. All I want is to get 

 the work out as perfect as I can, and I am willing to bear the whole expense for the 

 sake of diffusing knowledge to those who wish to learn, and have at present no fig- 

 ures to go by. I sent the work to Dr. Le Baron and to Mr. Uhler, who have urged 

 me to have the work published, and, not knowing that you would ever again visit 

 America, I sent the work with all its imperfections on its head to Messrs. Putnam & 

 Co., to put the work through as quickly as possible, as soon as they receive the man- 

 uscript from you. 



The letter closes with apologies for troubling him, and with the re 

 mark that "the work was commenced entirely at your suggestion.'^ The 

 italics are Mr. Glover's. 



In aTetter written the first week in January, 1874, he informs Baron 

 Osten-Sacken that he has directed Putnam & Co. to forward the work 

 and says : 



You will find in looking over it (the MS.) that I have enlarged my plan so as to il- 

 lustrate as much of the subject as I could — from foreign sxiecimens when I w^as unable 

 to procure native. Shall print 250 copies, if you think it worth the trouble ; if not, 

 50 copies are all that I shall distribute. 



Mr. Glover was hardly prepared for the reply to the above which was 

 returned a few weeks later; and though it was received in the same 

 kindly spirit with which it was written, it hurt him cruelly and very 

 nearly caused him to abandon the idea of publication altogether. Baron 

 Osten-Sacken told him frankly that the work was too unequal and too 

 unfinished; that entomology in the United States had made great prog- 

 ress in the last twelve years; that the plan of publication which was 

 suitable in 1862 would appear antiquated in 1874 ; and finally that such 

 a publication would be open to criticism and financially a dead loss. 



