BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



Mr. Glover's entomological writings are confined almost exclusively to 

 his reports published in the Annuals of the Patent Office, and the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, and the few published works which 

 bear his name. His earliest writings, as far as I have been able to discover, 

 date back to the fall of 1S53, and, with one exception, relate to pomo- 

 logical subjects rather than to entomology. He wrote occasionally for 

 the Fishkill Standard, usually in a satirical vein, holding up to ridi- 

 cule some local abuse, though not, as far as I know, upon entomological 

 subjects. It is also surmised that he wrote a series of articles for The 

 States, published in Washington before the war, in which the short- 

 comings of a public offi(!ial were pointedly reviewed. If there were 

 scientific articles written at this period of his life other than his Patent 

 Office reports, with a single exception, I do not know of them, and his 

 personal scrap-book does not reveal them. It is a known fact that he 

 could not be induced to contribute to current literature during the pe- 

 riod of his labors in the Department of Agriculture, though he was fre- 

 quently urged to do so.* 



Throwing out, therefore, all titles which are known to represent mere 

 republications from his reports, the record is reduced to the following 

 titles, which, as far as I have been able to learn, are the published arti- 

 cles, works, or writings of Townend Glover. 



1. " Popular Fallacies." American Agriculturist, November 9, 185i?. Signed "G." 



A short article on the many impracticable insect remedies which go the rounds of the 

 agricultural press, year after year, unproven and unchallenged. 



InTote. — At the same period, and in the same jour- 

 nal, the following general articles were published over 

 the same initial: Planting Shade Trees along High- 

 ways and Railroads, Kov. 23, 1853 ; Pomological Dream, 

 Nov. 30, 1853 ; and Pomological Realities (on pear cult- 

 ure), Dec. 23, 1853. 



2. Insects Injurious and Beneficial to Agriculture. Report of the Commissioner 



of Patents for 1854. Agriculture, p. 59-89. Illust. by six plates engraved on 

 stone by the author. 

 A paper on insects injurious to the cotton plant, wheat, and the grape-vine ; and on the 



plum curciilo, codling-moth, and peach-borer, closing with a short account of some of 



the common species of beneficial insects. 



*I find in one of his scrap-books a lengthy communication, clipped from some 

 newspaper unknown to me, which must have been a published official reply to some 

 correspondent of the Department. It is omitted from the bibliography, — C. R. D. 



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