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18C2 the Department of Agriculture was established as a separate iusti- 

 tutioii, under the conimissionership of the Hon. Isaac IS'ewtou, and 

 in 1803 Mr. Glover was appointed entomologist to the Department. 

 His annual reports follow consecutively from 1803 to 1877, and are 

 storehouses of interesting and important facts which are too little used 

 by the working entomologists of today. Their value for ready refer- 

 ence, however, is detracted from by a lack of systematic arrangement 

 and poor paper and jiresswork, but many observations are to be found 

 in the pages written by Glover which have subsequently been announced 

 by others as original and important discoveries. There is, liowever, 

 in Mr. Glover's reports a lack of consecutive and full treatment of any 

 one topic, and the subject of remedies seems seldom to have received 

 original treatment or thought witli him. This is largely due to the fact 

 that his reports were matters of secondary importance to him, his main 

 energies being devoted to the building uj) of a museum for the Depart- 

 ment and to the preparation of his most elaborate series of illustrations 

 of North American insects, a work upon which he expended enormous 

 labor, and which unfortunately, ui) to the present time, has added to 

 his fame nothing but the good opinion of a few of his scientific contem- 

 poraries. 



In 1877 Mr. Glover's health suddenly failed him. His report for that 

 year was largely prepared by his able assistant, Mr. Charles Richards 

 Dodge, who, by the way, is the author of the charmingly written account 

 of Mr. Glover's life, published as Bulletin 18 of the Division of Ento 

 mology of the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Glover lived for several 

 years afterwards, but was unable to do further work. He died in Balti- 

 more in 1883, and the writer and Profs. Uhler and Riley were the only 

 entomologists present at the funeral services of this, in many respects, 

 remarkable man. 



The year 1878 marked a new era in governmental entomological work. 

 Prof. C. V. Riley, a comparatively young man, who had already become 

 famous by the admirable work which he had done as entomologist of 

 the State of Missouri, and as chief of the U. S. Entomological Commis- 

 sion, was that year appointed successor to IVIr. Glover by the Hon. Wil- 

 liam G. Le Due, then Commissioner of Agriculture. Prof. Riley took 

 hold of his work with his accustomed vigor, and, during the nine months 

 that he remained in ofiQce at that time, accomplished a great deal. His 

 report for the year 1878, though short, is by far the mOvSt practical one 

 which the Department had published up to that time. On account of a 

 misunderstanding with the Commissioner, Prof. Riley resigned his com- 

 mission in May, 1879, and Prof. J. H. Comstock, of Cornell University, 

 was appointed in his stead. Prof. Comstock remained in office until May, 

 1881. He completed the investigation of the cotton worm, begun by 

 Prof. Riley, and published a thoroughly practical and useful volume 

 entitled Report upon Cotton Insects, early in 1880. In addition to this 

 report he published extensive annual reports covering the years 1879 



