812 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



GLOVER ENTOMOLOGICAL PLATES. 

 January 21, 1879 Senate. 



Petition of Prof . Tmimend Glover. (Senate Misc. Doc. No. 38.) 



To the Senate and House of Represenatives: 



Your memorialist respectfully represents that during the past fif 

 teen years he has been the entomologist of the Agricultural Depart 

 ment of the Government; that prior to his connection with the sal 

 Department he had commenced a work on entomology; that durinj 

 his professional connection with said Department he has employed hi 

 time, exclusive of that exacted by official duties, in the prosecution o 

 this work; that he has completed said work, which consists of a numbe 

 of manuscript volumes and two hundred and seventy-nine engrave 

 copperplates illustrating the work, which engraved plates represen 

 the figures of over ten thousand insects. 



Your memorialist further represents that the preparation of th 

 manuscript volumes and the engraving of the copperplates are th 

 result of his individual labor, done at his own residence out of offic 

 hours; that the work so accomplished has caused him intense stud 

 and investigation; that during all the years of his connection with th 

 Agricultural Department and the progress of the work he has prepare 

 and produced for the benefit of said Department books of reference an 

 colored illustrative plates, exclusive of and in addition to his profession* 

 duties; that he possesses the evidence, in the shape of a vast amoun 

 of correspondence, of the advantages accruing to the agricultural dit 

 tricts of the country from the possession and use by the Governmen 

 of such information in practical form. 



Your memorialist further represents that his object in commencin 

 and prosecuting so extensive and comprehensive a work was to furnis 

 a series of volumes for reference, with full and accurate illustrations 

 which, when published in proper form, will serve as a text-book fo 

 scientists, for the Agricultural Department of the Government, fo 

 local organizations, and for individual convenience. 



Your memorialist further represents that the preparation of th 

 manuscript volumes, the procuring, figuring, and engraving of s 

 large a variety of insects, have imposed unremitting study and labo 

 and the expenditure of a large amount of his own money; that at 

 time of life when rest and comfort are desirable he finds himsel 

 broken in health and a constant sufferer. Of this he makes no con 

 plaint. It is the inevitable consequence of overtaxed powers in th 

 persistent pursuit of a profession which has been the absorbing objec 

 of his life. 



Your memorialist further represents that he greatly desires that th 

 Government should become the possessor of this work, not only o 



