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1802 the Department of Agriculture was established as a separate insti- 
tution, under the commissionership of the Hon. Isaac Newton, and 
in 1803 Mr. Glover was appointed entomologist to the Department. 
His annual reports follow consecutively from 1863 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 presswork, 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, however, 
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 with him. This is largely due to the fact 
that his reports were mattersof secondary importance to him, his main 
energies being devoted to the building up 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, up 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 Eichards 
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 Euto 
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. Chler 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 Mr. 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 office at that time, accomplished a great deal. His 
report for the year 1878, though short, is by far the most 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 
