BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Mr. Glover’s entomological writings are confined almost exclusively to 
his reports published in the Annuals of the Patent Office, and the United 
States Department of Agriculture, and the few published works which 
bear his name. His earliest writings, as far as I have been able to discover, 
date back to the fall of 1853, and, with one exception, relate to porno- 
logical subjects rather than to entomology. He wrote occasionally for 
the Fishkill Standard, usually in a satirical vein, holding up to ridi- 
cule some local abuse, though not, as far as I know, upon entomological 
subjects. It is aiso surmised that he wrote a series of articles for The 
States, published in Washington before the war, in which the short- 
comings of a public official were pointedly reviewed. If there were 
scientific articles written at this period of his life other than his Patent 
Office reports, with a single exception, I do not know of them, and his 
personal scrap-book does not reveal them. It is a known fact that he 
could not be induced to contribute to current literature during the pe- 
riod of his labors in the Department of Agriculture, though he was fre- 
quently urged to do so. # 
* Throwing out, therefore, all titles which are known to represent mere 
republications from his reports, the record is reduced to the following 
titles, which, as far as I have been able to learn, are the published arti- 
cles, works, or writings of Townend Glover. 
1. “ Popular Fallacies.” American Agriculturist, November 9,1853. Signed “G-.” 
A short article on the many impracticable insect remedies which go the rounds of the 
agricultural press, year after year, unproven and unchallenged. 
Note. — At the same period, and in the same jour- 
nal, the following general articles were published over 
the same initial: Planting Shade Trees along High- 
ways and Railroads, Nov. 23, 1853 ; Pomological Dream, 
Nov. 30, 1853 ; and Pomological Realities (on pear cult- 
ure), Dec. 23, 1853. 
2. Insects Injurious and Beneficial to Agriculture. Report of the Commissioner 
of Patents for 1854. Agriculture, p. 59-89. Illust. by six plates engraved on 
stone by the author. 
A paper on insects injurious to the cotton plant, wheat, and the grape-vine ; and on the 
plum curculo, codling-moth, and peach-borer, closing with a short account of some of 
the common species of beneficial insects. 
* I find in one of his scrap-books a lengthy communication, clipped from some 
newspaper unknown to me, which must have been a published official reply to some 
correspondent of the Department. It is omitted from the bibliography. —C. R. D. 
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