FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, 1877-1879. 817 



January 21, 1879 Senate. 



Memorial (Seriate Misc. Doc. No. 40) in favor of the purchase of the 

 engraved plates prepared by Prof . Toionend Glover. 



Learning that the lifelong work on North American insects of Prof. 

 Townend Glover, late entomologist of the Department of Agriculture, 

 is offered to the Government at the mere cost of engraving the plates, 

 we take pleasure in recommending its purchase, knowing that such a 

 publication would prove a valuable acquisition to the literature of 

 science, and that the work will be found most useful in the libraries of 

 colleges and other institutions of learning, agricultural societies, and 

 of scientific men. 



We, the working entomologists of the United States, therefore urge 

 its speedy possession by the Government, that the value of the work 

 may be recognized during the life of the author, and that the cause of 

 American entomology may be advanced. 



SAM. H. SCUDDER. 

 Dr. H. A. HAGEN, 

 Professor at Harvard University. 



B. PICKMAN MANN. 

 GEO. DIMMOCK. 



E. P. AUSTIN. 

 S. I. SMITH, 

 Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Yale College. 



A. E. VERRILL, 

 Professor of Zoology, Yale College. 



J. L. LECONTE. 



E. T. CRESSON. 

 GEORGE H. HOWE, M. D. 

 CHAS. A. BLAKE. 

 P. R. UHLER, 



President of the Maryland Academy of Sciences. 

 JNO. G. MORRIS. 



C. V. RILEY, 



Chief U. S. Entomological Commission, 

 Entomologist Department of Agriculture. 

 CHAS. R. DODGE, 



Editor Field and Forest, 

 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, 

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