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marriage there was one daughter, Miss Miriam D. Uhler, now 

 a student at Goucher College in Baltimore. 



Uhler 's publishing career began in 1855, and his first papei; 

 was published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia under the title "Descriptions of a Few 

 Species of Coleoptera supposed to be New." His next paper 

 (1857), also published in the Proceedings of the Academy, was 

 entitled "A Contribution to the Neuropterology of the United 

 States," and this was followed the next year by another paper 

 on Neuroptera. His first publication on the Hemiptera was 

 published in 1860, and was a report on the Hemiptera of the 

 North Pacific Exploring Expedition, also published in the 

 Proceedings of the Academy. From that time on his ento- 

 mological papers related almost entirely to the Hemiptera, and 

 of these there was a careful list published by Samuel Henshaw 

 in Psyche, Volume X, 1903. There is a long list of papers 

 relating to collections made in the surveys of the western ter- 

 ritories, and it was the habit of collectors and institutions for 

 many years to send all of their Hemiptera to him for study 

 and report. He described many new forms, and had a broad 

 comprehensive view of the whole heterogeneous group. How 

 firm a grasp he had of the whole subject is well shown by his 

 admirable chapter on Hemiptera (a book in itself) in the 

 Standard Natural History. His last entomological paper was 

 published in 1904, thus rounding out the unusually long period 

 of fifty years of active publishing life. 



As would naturally follow from a life of such activity in 

 systematic entomology, he built up a large and valuable col- 

 lection. His arduous work with his frequently very minute 

 specimens had an injurious effect upon his eyes, and in iXXfi 

 an operation was performed which restored his sight, and he 

 worked on for the most part unhampered by poor eyes until 

 1905, when his sight began to fail gradually from glaucoma. 

 He felt that this failure was irreparable and reconciled him- 

 self to the prospect of blindness. He had during all these 

 years constantly in mind the preparation of a large monograph 

 of the Capsidae, the manuscript of which the writer saw on 



