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The Cornell TTniversity Agricultural Experiment Station was estab- 

 lished by the authorities of the university in 1879, and its first annual 

 report contained a series of miscellaneous entomological observatious 

 by the acting professor of entomology, Dr. W. S. Barnard. The second 

 report, issued in 1883, contained an elaborate monograph of the 

 Diaspiuii! by Prof. J. H. Comstock, and au important article on the 

 Tineidie infesting apple trees jy Mr. A. E. Brunn, a student of the 

 Department of Entomology. With the establishment of the agricul 

 tural experiment stations under the Hatch bill, in 1888, this experiment 

 station became governmental in its character, and Prof. Comstock was 

 naturally made entomologist. Since that date he, or his assistants, 

 have published a number of very important bulletins, the first one, on 

 A Sawily Borer of Wheat, by Prof. Comstock ; the second on Wlreworms, 

 by Prof. Comstock and his assistant, Mr. M. V. Slingerland, and the 

 later ones mainly by Mr. Slingerland. These are among the best and 

 most practical of the experiment station bulletins that we have. They 

 are characterized by almost a superabundance of detail and plainly 

 by great care. The illustrations are very nearly all original, and are 

 excellent. 



The U. S. Department op Agriculture. — Almost simultane- 

 ously with the appointment of Dr. Pitch to do entomological work for 

 the State of New York, came the appointment of an entomological expert 

 under the General Government. On June 14, 1854, Mr. Townend 

 Glover was appointed by the Commissioner of Patents to collect statistics 

 and other information on seeds, fruits, and insects in the United States, 

 under the Bureau of Agriculture of the Patent Office. Mr. Glover was 

 one of the mosteccentric individuals who have ever done important work 

 on North American insects. He had led a roving and eventful life as 

 a boy in Brazil, as a clerk in a draper's shop in England, as an artist 

 in Germany, as a roving traveler and naturalist in all parts of the 

 United States, and finally as a landed proprietor with horticultural 

 tastes on the banks of the Hudson in New York. Pomological inter- 

 ests brought him to Washington shortly before the time when he 

 received his appointment. His first report was published in the li port 

 of the Commissioner of Patents for 1854, was illustrated by six plates 

 engraved on stone by the author, and comprised some consideration of 

 the insects injurious to the cotton plant, wheat, and the grapevine, and 

 on the plum curculio, codling moth, and peach borer, closing with some 

 account of the more common species of beneficial insects. His second 

 report, in 1855, continued the consideration of cotton insects, together 

 with some account of orange insects. The reports for 185G and 1857 con- 

 tained nothing from him, but that for 1858 contains a rather full report 

 on the insects frequenting orange trees in Florida, published over the 

 initials D. J. B., which were those of the then chief clerk of the'Bureau, 

 with whom IMr. Glover had many serious disagreements, largely on the 

 matter of credit, which resulted in his resignation the following year. In 



