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title-page, a few iutroductory pages of classification, aud catalogues of 

 species with references accompauying each order. The slips of names 

 (save the Lepidoptera) were pasted upon each plate just under the fig- 

 ures, the page being of quarto size. Of these 13 copies, which were of 

 course uucolored, 5 were sent to Europe, and 5 distributed here. Two 

 other copies were sold with his library afterwards. Several copies, in 

 the hands of individuals or institutious, were later on ordered to be 

 colored, the writer having had the work done from Mr. Glover's origi- 

 nals, by a competent colorist. A list of institutions and individuals to 

 whom these sets were sent was made by me at the time of the distribu- 

 tion, but can not now be produced. One other formal publication, is- 

 sued in 1877, should be mentioned. I refer to the compilation of refer- 

 ences to the insects treated in his own aud other reports, issued by the 

 United States Department of Agriculture and by the Patent Office, to 

 date of publication. It contains also a list of animal and vegetable 

 substances injured or destroyed by the insects referred to, the entire 

 volume making 103 pages, printed from stone, upon one side of the 

 sheet, ill fac-simile, uniform with his other publications. A few sets of 

 his cotton plates were also distributed, bound up with a type-printed 

 title-page and cover. 



While upon the history of Mr. Glover's undertaking, it should be 

 stated that among several plans looking toward the ultimate disposition 

 of the work, in the event of its not being published prior to the author's 

 death, there were two plans, at least, entertained by him in the latter 

 part of the centennial year, in which the United States Government 

 was wholly ignored. The first of these, which considered leaving the 

 work to some institution in England, with means to publish it, was 

 hardly seriously contemplated ; for being a work upon American insects 

 exclusively, it was not thought at all likely that it would claim the same 

 interest in England as in America. The other jjlau did receive consid- 

 eration to the extent of an inquiry of the authorities of Johns Hopkins 

 University, in Baltimore, as to the acceptauce of a trust fund to be left 

 for the purpose of promoting the study of entomology. In response to 

 this inquiry Mr. Glover learned that the consent of the trustees could 

 be obtained by President Gilman to the acceptance of a given sum, to 

 be known as the Glover fund, the donor to specify the manner in which 

 he preferred the income to be Spent, as follows: Either in promoting 

 investigation, in publishing plates and texts, or in the delivery of lec- 

 tures. But the plan was never consummated. 



At last came his sudden and prostrating illness, in the spring of 1878, 

 and he retired from active labor of any kind. 



Eegarding the sale of his plates — in January, 1879, during the third 

 session of the Fort3"-fifth Congress, Mr. Glover first memorialized that 

 body, proposing to transfer to the Government the en tire series, together 

 with the text of his entomological work. A special bill providing for 

 the transfer was not introduced, but the memorial was referred to the 

 Senate Committee ou Agriculture. Professor Baird took great interest 



