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love of work. They were filled with a rampant exuberant individuality 

 which took them wherever they pleased to go. They followed no set 

 fashions in biology. Such methods as they had were their own, 

 wrought out by their own strength. They were dependent upon neither 

 libraries nor equipment, though they struggled for both. Not facilities 

 for work, but endeavor to work, if need be without facilities, gave them 

 strength, and their strength was as the strength of ten. 



These words of Dr. David Starr Jordan apply well to the 

 American naturalists of the period when there was actively at 

 work in this country what has been termed the second genera- 

 tion of distinguished American entomologists. This group 

 consisted of Le Conte, Horn, Packard, Scudder, Cresson, 

 Uhler and Grote. Le Conte was the oldest of the group ; was 

 born in 1825, living and working for 58 years. Uhler, born 

 ten years later than Le Conte, lived to be 78 years of age. 

 Scudder, born two years later than Uhler, died at the age of 

 74. Cresson, born a year later than Scudder, is the only sur- 

 vivor of the group and has now reached the age of 75. Pack- 

 ard, born the year after Cresson, lived for 66 years. Horn, 

 born still a year later, lived for 57 years ; and Grote, still a 

 year later, died at the age of 62. Think what the work of 

 this group of men did for North American entomology ! 



Philip Reese Uhler, who passed away at his home in Balti- 

 more, October 2ist, 1913, was a man of great culture and 

 charm, an indefatigable worker, and a typical naturalist at the 

 period of his ripe manhood. He was born in Baltimore, June 

 3, 1835. He was son of George Washington Uhler, a well-to- 

 do and philanthropic merchant of that city, and of Anna Maria 

 (Reese) Uhler. His great grandfather, Erasmus Uhler, came 

 to America from England and served as a private in the Revo- 

 lutionary army ; and his maternal great grandfather was a 

 Captain on the American side in the war of the Revolution. In 

 the second war with England, his paternal and maternal grand- 

 fathers were both actively engaged in the battle of North 

 Point, in which the latter, Captain John Reese, was wounded. 



Doctor Uhler received his early education at Baltimore Col- 

 lege and at the latin school of Daniel Jones. He was inter- 

 ested in natural history as a boy, and began to collect at an 



