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The Cornell University 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 observations 
by the acting professor of entomology, Dr. W. S. Barnard. The second 
report, issued in 1883, contained an elaborate monograph of the 
Diaspinse by Prof. J. H. Comstock, and an important article on the 
Tineidse infesting apple trees oy 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 Sawfly Borer of Wheat, by Prof. Comstock ; the second on Wireworms, 
by Trof. 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 of Agriculture. — Almost simultane- 
ously with the appointment of Dr. Fitch 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 most eccentric 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, aud 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 R. 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, aud the grapevine, aud 
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 1856 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 Mr. Glover had many serious disagreements, largely on the 
matter of credit, which resulted in his resignation the following year. In 
