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Under the name of the insect appeared first the Greek or Latin de- 
rivation (both genera and species) ; then followed the reference to plates 
and figures of the work, for sometimes the larvae and imago were figured 
upon different plates, and even the male and female appeared in differ- 
ent places 5 then a list of the synonyms, followed by a short and con- 
cise account of the life history of the species, from egg to imago; then 
followed habitat , food plants, and, lastly, the best-known remedies, the 
parasites, and references to other authorities. In another portion of the 
work was given alphabetical lists of the food plants in the different 
orders, with the insects figured upon them ; and the whole work was to 
be so simplified and made so available for consultation by an admirable 
system of cross-references that the merest tyro could make use of it. 
When a new fact was discovered it was at once jotted down in the 
proper book of manuscript notes. When a new number of some ento- 
mological publication was received it was carefully digested, and the 
new facts transcribed into the appropriate place, with due credit, so 
that the work grew by almost daily accretion to its pages, and, as far 
as the later material is concerned, it was up to date. In these manu- 
script notes Mr. Glover should have indicated, however, the records of 
his own personal observations. How much injustice he may have done 
himself by locking up in an unpublished work the results of these obser- 
vations for many years will never be known. The folly of prema- 
turely u rushing into print” is conceded; but it should be known that 
Mr. Glover made many new and interesting discoveries that were wor- 
thy to have been placed on record at the time of their discovery that he 
received no credit for whatever. 
Some of these he was urged in vain to publish by contributions to 
the scientific periodicals of the day ; but always looking forward to that 
indefinite point of time when his entire work would be completed (as 
though it ever could be finished by such a man while there were insects 
to figure or new facts to record), he declined publishing any portion 
fugitively, save as it might be appropriately used in his special reports 
as entomologist of the Department of Agriculture, and even then he 
used as little as possible. He was extremely cautious in making state- 
ments, disliked criticism, and oftentimes in giving the life-history of a 
particular species, stated the facts on the authority of others, with 
credit, in preference to his own, when both were equally full and au- 
thentic. 
If he did not give to the world the results of his observations during 
these years, the entomological world was kept fully posted as to the 
progress he was making with his plates. Dr. Walsh, Messrs. Grote, 
Saunders, Strecker, Sanborn, and others loaned him box after box of 
unfigured species, which, with other material, enabled him to complete 
almost two plates a month. Copies of these plates were printed as soon 
as the engraviug was finished and corrected, and after coloring half a 
dozen or more copies of the plate with his own hand, they were mailed 
