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soon became connected with it. His commission bears date June 14, 
1854, and his appointment was made “ for collecting statistics and other 
information on seeds, fruits, and insects in the United States.” A small 
cabinet was at once begun in the single room then devoted to the Bureau 
of Agriculture, the fruit models forming no small part of the exhibit. 
The collection of fruit models now comprised some 2,000 specimens? 
the matrices being also preserved and numbered, that duplicates might 
be made if desired. “It has taken $3,000 in cash and six years of un- 
remitting toil” to produce them, is Mr. Glover’s written testimony about 
this time concerning the collection. 
Mr. Glover’s name is not mentioned in any of the official reports of 
the Commissioner of Patents. By inference, however, we know that he 
held the dual position of entomologist and special agent, his duties 
necessitating travel upon various missions bearing upon the agricult- 
ural interests of the country, through tbe Southern States mainly, and 
at one time into South America. Charles Mason was Commissioner of 
Patents at this time, the chief clerk in charge of the Bureau being D. 
J. Browne, of New Hampshire. 
In 1854 Mr. Glover studied in the held the insects affecting various 
crops, the summer months being spent in South Carolina investigating 
the grape insects and the insects injurious to cotton. In 1855 he was 
ordered to Florida, where he occupied himself during the entire season 
of five or six months in studying the habits of various insects and in 
investigations upon the insect enemies of cotton. In a private letter he 
alludes to this summer having been spent most pleasantly “ with alli- 
gators, mosquitoes, and red bugs.” It may be worthy of note that 
nearly all the drawings which subsequently appeared in his twenty-two 
plates of the cotton insects were made at this time in and about Tal- 
lahassee, though his field of observation extended from Columbia, S. C., 
southward. It was in this year, too, that he first met the one congenial 
friend and companion of his Florida experiences, a worthy gentleman, 
Mr. Henry Wells, the friendship lasting through life. Mr. Wells was 
always dignified with the pseudonym “ Alligator ” to the last of their 
acquaintance, Mr. Glover’s correspondent appellation being “Old June 
Bug.” 
The experiences of this season also inspired the Florida litany, which 
Mr. Glover was want to repeat upon occasions with great satisfaction. 
He was frequently asked for copies of the lines, and he always returned 
an emphatic “ no,” for he never would allow original verse of this de- 
scription to get out of his possession, at least when he could help it. 
Here is the litany as jotted down by me during a chance recital not 
long after a refusal to make a copy of the lines : 
From red-bugs and bed-bugs, from sand-flies and land-flies, 
Mosquitoes, galliuippers, and fleas, 
From hog-ticks and dog-ticks, from hen-lice and men-lice, 
We pray thee, good Lord, give us ease : 
And all the congregation shall scratch and say Amen. 
