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soon became connected with it. His commission bears date June 14, 

 1854, and his appointment was made "for collecting statistics and other 

 information on seeds, fruits, and insects in the United States." A small 

 cabinet was at once begun in the single room then devoted to the Bureau 

 of Agriculture, the fruit models forming no small part of the exhibit. 



The collection of fruit models now comprised some 2,000 specimens? 

 the matrices being also preserved and numbered, that duplicates might 

 be made if desired. "It has taken $3,000 in cash and six years of un- 

 remitting toil" to produce them, is Mr. Glover's written testimony about 

 this time coucerning the collection. 



Mr. Glover's name is not mentioned in any of the ofiticial reports of 

 the Commissioner of Patents. By inference, however, we know that he 

 held the dual position of entomologist and special agent, his duties 

 necessitating travel upon various missions bearing upon the agricult- 

 ural interests of the country, through the Southern States mainly, and 

 at one time into South America. Charles Mason was Commissioner of 

 Patents at this time, the chief clerk in charge of the Bureau being D, 

 J. Browne, of New Hampshire. 



Inl<S54 Mr. Glover studied in the held the insects affecting various 

 crops, the summer months being spent in South Carolina investigating 

 the grape insects and the insects injurious to cotton. In 1855 he was 

 ordered to Florida, where he occupied himself during the entire season 

 of iive or six months in studying the habits of various insects and in 

 investigations upon the insect enemies of cotton. In a private letter he 

 alludes to this summer having been spent most pleasantly " with alli- 

 gators, mosquitoes, and red bugs." It may be worthy of note that 

 nearly all the drawings which subsequently appeared in his twenty-two 

 jjlatesof the cotton insects were made at this time in and about Tal 

 lahassee, though his field of observation extended from Columbia, S. C, 

 southward. It was in this year, too, that he first met the one congenial 

 friend and companion of his Florida experiences, a worthy gentleman, 

 Mr. Henry Wells, the friendship lasting through life. Mr. ^Vells was 

 always dignified with the pseudonym "Alligator" to the last of their 

 acquaintance, Mr. Glover's correspondent appellation being "Old June 

 Bug." 



The experiences of this season also inspired the Florida litany, which 

 Mr. Glover was want to repeat upon occasions with great satisfaction. 

 He was frequently asked for copies of the lines, and he always returned 

 an emphatic " no," for he never would allow original verse of this de- 

 scription to get out of his possession, at least when he could help it. 

 Here is the litany as jotted down by me during a chance recital not 

 long after a refusal to make a copy of the lines : 



From red-bugs aud bed-bugs, from saud-tiies and land-flies, 



Mosquitoes, gallinippers, and fleas. 

 From hog-ticks aud dog-ticks, from ben-lice and men-lice. 



We pray thee, good Lord, give us ease : 

 Aud all the congregation shall scratch aud say Amen. 



