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While at Cambridge, Uhler met among others Albert S. 

 Bickmore, and together they discussed plans for the founding 

 of a great natural history museum in New York City. Writing 

 to Uhler May 7, 1867, from Japan, Bickmore says, "I have 

 by no means forgotten our favorite hopes to see a great mu- 

 seum erected in New York, and have been doing all I could 

 in this distant quarter to forward our plans." 



After leaving Harvard Uhler returned to Baltimore to 

 become Assistant Librarian of the Peabody Library, and in 

 1870 was made Librarian, and there he spent the rest of his 

 life. Mrs. Uhler considers that his great work is the catalog 

 of the Library, which is indeed a model. While his main work 

 was in the Peabody Institute, he continued practically all his 

 life his entomological investigations, and interested himself in 

 many other matters. He was a student of geology and wrote 

 several important geological papers. He gave much help at 

 the time of the forming of the Johns Hopkins University, and 

 was the first associate professor appointed in the University, 

 and in this capacity was connected with the institution until the 

 time of his death. His life was the quiet and uneventful one 

 of a student ; his profound modesty kept him in the back- 

 ground, and he disliked what he termed "cheap notoriety." 

 Like nearly all great naturalists, he was a most helpful man; 

 no worker appealed to him in vain, and to many he was of the 

 greatest help. He was broadly read, and possessed an aston- 

 ishing memory. Mrs. Uhler tells me that in the summer of 

 1893 he went abroad and purchased for the Peabody Library 

 about twenty thousand dollars' worth of books. They were 

 bought without the aid of lists, since he trusted to his memory 

 of the books already in the library, and when the accessions 

 were finally catalogued it was found that he had bought but 

 three duplicates of those previouslv possessed. 



Doctor Uhler was married in 1867 to Miss Sophia Werde- 

 baugh, who died in 1884. One son came from this marriage- 

 Horace Scudder Uhler, who is now Professor of Physics at 

 Yale. In 1886 he married Miss Pearl Daniels, of Baltimore, 

 who was a true helpmeet to him and who survives. Of this 



