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A few weeks later Osten-Sackeu wrote a second letter, which is ap- 

 pended : 



Cambridge, Mass., March 6, 1874. 

 My Dear Glover : Yon i)robably know that I have bad some, correspondence 

 with Mr. Le Baron resi>ecting yonr intended publication. I was very sorry to hear 

 from him that you took my letters so much to heart and that you felt discouraged in 

 consequence. The result of my correspondence with Mr. Le Baron was that we came 

 to a perfect understanding as to the main points at issue. We both think that the pub- 

 lication of your plates (with the scientific names appended), in the shape of one or 

 two volumes, would be very acceptable to the public at large. The letter-press, if 

 any, should consist, in my opinion, of the general introduction only to the orders and 

 families, with references, at the end of each family, to the figures belonging to it. 

 But if I were you I would publish the plates at once, without waiting for the letter- 

 press, and give the latter at leisure afterwards. In other words, your work should be 

 for the public at large and not for the few and for the learned societies. As such it 

 will fill a want in the American literature. I even confess that on this point I have 

 somewhat modified my opinion since my last letter, and as well named collections 

 are a rarity your book will, to a certain extent, sujiply their place. But do not issue 

 each order as a separate work, as the people do not know much about the division of 

 orders yet, and as, issued in this form, the work assumes at once a learned appearance 

 which it should not have. The title should bear the word Insects, and not Coleopiera, 

 Orthoptera, etc., which learned terms upon a title page act as a bugbear to the un- 

 scientific. 



Believe me always, very truly, yours, 



E. Osten-Sacken. 

 Under date April 10, 1874, Mr. Glover replied as follows : 

 Should have acknowledged your letter immediately, but was confined to my bed 

 for some days by an attack of bilious intermittent fever. When I read your first 

 letter I felt so much discouraged that if I had had the manuscript in my possession I 

 should have burned it with pleasure and forsworn entomology forever. Indeed I 

 have scarcely opened the book again since it came back from Putnam's. I intended 

 then to publish 50 copies for gratuitous distribution among entomologists and my 

 personal friends, and had saved up the money to pay for its publication; but I was 

 so much disgusted with my own work that I invested in another manner, and should 

 I ever publish the plates with merely their names, as you suggest in your second let- 

 ter, I shall have now to wait until I can save up money to do so. At present, how- 

 ever, I intend to follow your advice and publish the plates as soon as I can with no 

 text, excepting the names and a short introduction, but shall have to refer to your 

 catalogue, as there is no other. I am busy revising and correcting namej, notes, and 

 figures of my Orthoptera, and have etched from additional plates from Thomas's new 

 species collected by Haydeu and Wheeler. As soon as this is done I shall again com- 

 mence with the Diptera and preiiare the names for publication. Mr. Uhler is assist- 

 ing me with the Hemiptera, and I intend to figure all the species I can procure dur- 

 ing the coming summer. 



Remembering the main facts of this circumstance, but not wishing to 

 trust to memory in stating the matter, I have referred to Baron Osten 

 Sacken, who kindly places such portions of the original correspondence 

 before me as are important, together with an explanation, from which 

 the following extracts are taken : 



I made the acquaintance of Mr. Glover while I lived in Washington as secretary of 

 the legation of Russia. It was somewhere between 1856 and I860 [Mr. Glover first 

 met Baron Osten-Sacken in December, 1857. — C. R. D.]. At that time, except Le 

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