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As Mr. Glover finally sold his plates to the Governmeut (he gave his 
manuscripts for nothing), the question has more than once been asked 
of me if he ever employed himself upon them in any way during 
the hours of official duty. To this question there is but one answer, 
No ! Mr. Glover himself appreciated the force of the suggestion and 
tbe possibility of such a charge being made; and, not to be misunder- 
stood in the matter, he rarely lost an opportunity to explain to visitors, 
while showing his work, that it had all been done “ outside of office 
hours, before 9 o’clock and after 3.” Naturally the phrase in time be- 
came stereotyped. 
The closing of this period marks the opening of his publishing period, 
as may be termed the years from 1872 to 1878. For many years he had 
talked of publication, but, as has been shown, it was always a thing of 
the future. As far back as 1860 the matter of publication had been 
discussed with his associates, and with the accumulated material of ten 
years it seemed to his friends that the time had come if ever to bring 
the work before the world. The late Professor Baird, a firm friend to 
Mr. Glover during a period of twenty-five years, was very enthusiastic 
about the matter, and upon several occasions stated his willingness to 
secure a publisher. But the engraver author was not ready. The work 
had reached such magnitude that he wished to complete it from his 
stand-point of completion, and make it an exhaustive illustrated ency- 
clopaedia of American entomology, that would find a place in every 
large library in the land. He did not wish to issue the entire work as 
a private venture with a probable contingency of great persoual pe- 
cuniary loss, because it was his dream that it should be published by 
the Government and be widely distributed gratuitously. The idea 
had been in his mind for years, and he frequently told me, in conversa- 
tions of a confidential nature, that in the event of his death he should 
leave the entire work to the United States Government any way ; and 
at one time he seriously considered the expediency of bequeathing 
with it a portion of his private fortune to complete it, and to insure its 
publication in a proper manner after his death. 
The talk concerning publication was not without its influence. The 
preparation of the plates had been known to the entomological public 
for so long a time, and there was now so little possibility of publishing 
the work in its entire tv in the immediate future, its author forsaw the 
advantage of, if not the necessity for, a present recognition of the im- 
portance and utility of the undertaking, which could best be secured by 
preliminary publication of some of the plates themselves. It must be 
admitted, too, that he was actuated toward publication in this manner 
by a secondary motive — other than a wish to bring to the scientific 
world a knowledge of the value and immensity of his undertaking — 
and, prompted no doubt by his desire for the world’s golden opinion, a 
wish to know the exact position his work would obtain in entomologi- 
cal literature. 
