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And whereas his personal enthusiasm has largely helped to 

 develop Washington entomology, and to encourage the 

 studies of others, we shall long miss his kindly advice and 

 greetings. Therefore be it 



Resolved, That we publish in our Proceedings a portrait of 

 Mr. Ulke, and a sketch of his life. And be it further 



Resolved, That we convey to his family and friends our sym- 

 pathy for their loss and our tribute to his worth; and that 

 we express to the world our admiration of his industry as a col- 

 lector, our respect for his entomological knowledge, and our 

 high estimation of his character. 



(Signed) NATHAN BANKS. 

 E. A. SCHWARZ. 



H. L. VlERECK. 



Committee. 



HENRY ULKE was born at Frankenstein, Silesia, January 

 25, 1821. Of his childhood we quote from a fragment of an 

 unpublished autobiography as follows : 



I recall my great liking for music, painting, and insects as among my 

 earliest recollections. My father, a many-sided man and original'genius, 

 was well known as the proprietor of a comfortable hotel in Franken- 

 stein, where artists, musicians, comedians, and naturalists particularly 

 were always welcome and found good cheer. * * * Among the 

 guests at our house at that time I well remember the mineralogist Pro- 

 fessor Glocker, the botanist Professor Wimmer, and the entomologist 

 Professor Emil Schummel, of Breslau, who wrote several papers upon 

 the fauna of Silesia: also Professor Hermann Loew, the celebrated 

 dipterologist from Meseritz, who first taught me the use of the beating net. 



Happy indeed were we my eldest brother and I when our father, 

 who was a member of the city forest commission, took us to the neigh- 

 boring mountains. In the foot-hills were beautiful forests of pine and 

 hardwood, interspersed with luxuriant meadows which yielded us a veri- 

 table bonanza of insect treasures. There I found that beautiful Carabtis 

 auro-m'/ens, various elaters, chrysomelids, lepturas, saperdas, and other 

 longicorns of interest. Father gave us the generic names of the captured 

 beetles and cautioned us to be sure to remember them. These happy 

 days of outdoor rambling ceased when, at the age of ten, I was sent to a 

 classical school in Glatz to study Latin and Greek. After a two years 

 course there I left for Breslau and entered an art school, with the object 

 of making painting my profession. 



Breslau, the capital of Silesia, revealed a new world of interest to me. 

 Among the many things which attracted my attention were the natural- 

 history collections in the university building, where I saw, for the first 

 time, a complete representative display of the Silesian beetle fauna. 



