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may, and uo doubt will, sound egotistical, but to me tliey are very gratifying, as 

 showing the feelings of my late chief. 



It was at this time that he wrote : 



Heaven only knows where ray fate may lead me, for at iiresent I am like a feather 

 wafted by the wind. If a good offer were made me, would start to-morrow for 

 either Van Dieman's land or Kamschatka. 



Bat his fate led hiui to remaiu in Washington City for a time, where 

 he occupied himself in making new acquaintances and gathering mate- 

 rials for the coininencement of his work on American Entomology — 

 meanwhile using his influence toward the removal of the chief clerk, 

 D. J. Browne. 



It has been said of Mr. Glover : 



In his dealings with raeu he was just even to a degree that was generous ; but his 

 prejudices were strong and almost unyielding. He never forgot a kindness, nor was 

 he in tae least delinquent in his recognition of a favor. 



It may be added that he never forgot an injury and rarely forgave it ; 

 and concerning his old chief, he always spoke in terms of most sub- 

 lime contempt. He attacked his plagiaristic failings by means of tiie 

 "deadly parallel" column, in the public press of the day, and wrote 

 pages besides. His life of D. J. B. (not published), in the form of a 

 dozen pen and ink caricatures, is as taking as a Thackeray sketch, the 

 drawing being superlatively grotesque, while the explanations abound 

 in telling hits. This set of drawings would bear reproduction were 

 they not so personal. (The alligator's blood caricature is from this 

 series.) 



Fig. 4. An cai-ly caricature. 



