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early age. When he was ten years old his father bought a 

 farm near Reisterstown, and it was here that he acquired his 

 fondness for the study of insect life. His interest in insects 

 was discovered and encouraged by J. F. Wild, a German ento- 

 mologist, and by the Rev. John G. Morris, pastor of the First 

 English Lutheran Church, which Doctor Uhler's grandfather 

 helped to found. In 1863, at the age of twenty-eight years, he 

 was appointed Assistant Librarian of the Peabody Library, and 

 early in 1864 went to Cambridge at the call of Louis Agassiz. 

 He was paid for his services as assistant to Professor Agassiz 

 and as Librarian in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and 

 taught entomology to some of the undergraduates. He also 

 gave a series of lectures on entomology in the lecture room 

 of the M. C. Z. He was also at the same time a regularly en- 

 tered student in the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard 

 University, attending Louis Agassiz's lectures in zoology and 

 geology from the spring of 1864 to the end of the first term 

 in 1867. He attended also lectures by Asa Gray, Jeffries Wy- 

 man, Alexander Agassiz, and N. S. Shaler. At the end of 

 the first term, in 1867, he was called away from Cambridge 

 rather suddenly, when Professor Louis Agassiz was in a very 

 helpless condition and unable to give Uhler the degree of 

 Bachelor of Science, which he was entirely qualified to receive. 

 The degree, however, was later given to him by the Univer- 

 sity. Among his papers is a most appreciative note received 

 from Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes just before he retired from 

 the work at Harvard. 



Before he went to Harvard, Uhler had become a member 

 of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1858), 

 and of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia (1859). He 

 had published a number of systematic papers on Coleoptera, 

 Neuroptera, and Hemiptera, and had translated for the Smith- 

 sonian Institution and edited (with the assistance of Osten 

 Sacken) Hagen's elaborate Synopsis of the Neuroptera of 

 North America, published by the Smithsonian in 1861. It was 

 this early work which attracted the attention of the elder 

 Agassiz. 



