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A few weeks later Osten-Sacken wrote a second letter, which is ap- 
pended : 
Cambridge, Mass., March 6, 1874. 
My Dear Glover : You probably know that I have bad some correspondence 
with Mr. Le Baron respecting your intended publication. I was very sorry to hear 
from him that you took my letters so much to heart and that you felt discouraged in 
consequence. The result of my correspondence with Mr. Le Baron was that we came 
to a perfect understanding as to the main points at issue. We both think that the pub- 
lication of your plates (with the scientific names appended), in the shape of one or 
two volumes, would be very acceptable to the public at large. The letter-press, if 
any, should consist, in my opinion, of the general introduction only to the orders and 
families, with references, at the end of each family, to the figures belonging to it. 
But if I were you I would publish the plates at once, without waiting for the letter- 
press, and give the latter at leisure afterwards. In other words, your work should be 
for the public at large and not for the few and for the learned societies. As such it 
will fill a want in the American literature. I even confess that on this point I have 
somewhat modified my opinion since my last letter, and as well named collections 
are a rarity your book will, to a certain extent, supply their place. But do not issue 
each order as a separate work, as the people do not know much about the division of 
orders yet, and as, issued in this form, the work assumes at once a learned appearance 
which it should not have. The title should bear the word Insects, and not Coleoptera, 
Orthoptera. etc., which learned terms upon a title page act as a bugbear to the un- 
scientific. 
Believe me always, very truly, yours, 
R. Osten-Sacken. 
Under date April 10, 1874, Mr. Glover replied as follows : 
Should have acknowledged your letter immediately, but was confined to my bed 
for some days by an attack of bilious intermittent fever. When I read your first 
letter I felt so much discouraged that if I had had the manuscript in my possession I 
should have burned it with pleasure and forsworn entomology forever. Indeed I 
have scarcely opened the book again since it came back from Putnam’s. I intended 
then to publish 50 copies for gratuitous distribution among entomologists and my 
personal friends, and had saved up the money to pay for its publication; but I was 
so much disgusted with my own work that I invested in another manner, and should 
I ever publish the plates with merely their names, as you suggest in your second let- 
ter, I shall have now to wait until I can save up money to do so. At present, how- 
ever, I intend to follow your advice and publish the plates as soon as I can with no 
text, excepting the names and a short introduction, but shall have to refer to your 
catalogue, as there is no other. I am busy revising and correcting name3, notes, and 
figures of my Orthoptera, aud have etched from additional plates from Thomas’s new 
species collected by Hayden and Wheeler. As soon as this is done I shall again com- 
mence with the Diptera and prepare the uames for publication. Mr. Uhler is assist- 
ing me with the Hemiptera, and I intend to figure all the species I can procure dur- 
ing the coming summer. 
Remembering the main facts of this circumstance, but not wishing to 
trust to memory in stating the matter, I have referred to Baron Osten 
Sacken, who kindly places such portions of the original correspondence 
before me as are important, together with an explanation, from which 
the following extracts are taken : 
I made the acquaintance of Mr. Glover while I lived in Washington as secretary of 
the legation of Russia. It was somewhere betweeu 1856 and I860 [Mr. Glover first 
met Baron Osten-Sacken in December, 1857. — C. R. D.]. At that time, except Le 
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