LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. 
Boston, Mass., December 1 , 1887. 
Dear Sir : In undertaking to tell the story of Mr. Glover’s life, I feel 
that, while it is a pleasant privilege to be able to review such interest- 
ing reminiscences of our long acquaintance as may bear upon the man 
and his work, the account must be necessarily imperfect and incomplete 
in portions from lack of important data. 
The facts regarding his boyhood life are gleaned from your visits to, 
and correspondence with, Mr. C.G. Oates and Mr. Abram Clapham, of 
London, England — Mr. Oates’s mother and Mr. Clapham being Mr. 
Glover’s first cousins, the nearest English relatives who were living at 
the time, — and also from early personal diaries and family papers? 
loaned me by Mrs. Hopper. 
Mrs. Glover has rendered me valuable aid by furnishing important in- 
formation regarding dates, and by placing at my disposal a considerable 
amount of documentary evidence relating to the middle period of his 
life, which, with a few early letters and my own recollection of the man, 
and of many conversations with him touching upon his personal history, 
are the principal materials that have been available. I am also in- 
debted to you for portions of the bibliography of his entomological 
writings, prepared by Mr. B. P. Mann, and for your kind assistance in 
other directions. 
As the subject of this sketch was a man of great individuality, I have 
t bought it best to present the main facts or his life in such manner as 
will more fully bring out his personal attributes and peculiarities, aud 
leave the treatment of his entomological and museum work, or that 
which bears directly on his connection with the Department of Agri- 
culture, to special chapters. Some of the extracts or incidents may 
seem trivial, but the make-up of the man embodies such diversity of 
talent, and at the same time presents such originality, that it has seemed 
best to use that material which will best show him forth as he was. 
I am yours, respectfully, 
Charles Richards Dodgke. 
Prof. Charles V. Riley, 
Entomologist , U. S. Department of Agriculture . 
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