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206 he was engaged principally in photography. He went in 1875 to Munich, where he studied at the academy under Ferdinand Barth and Alexander Wagner until 1877, in which year he went to Italy. In the same year he returned to Philadelphia and opened a studio. He visited Paris in 1879, returning the following year. He is the instructor of the portrait class at the Pennsylvania academy, and has become known as an excellent artist. Among his portraits are those of Isaac Lea and Peter McCall (1879); Joseph Leidy, painted for the Academy of natural sciences (1882); Wayne McVeagh, for the department of justice, Washington (1884); and John D. Lankenau, for the German hospital, Philadelphia (1886).

UHLER, Philip Reese (you'-ler), naturalist, b. in Baltimore, Md., 3 June, 1835. He studied natural science at Harvard under Louis Agassiz in 1863, and was assistant in charge of entomology at that institution and librarian of the Museum of comparative zoölogy. Subsequently he returned to Baltimore, and in 1876 he became an associate in natural sciences at Johns Hopkins university. He is also librarian of the Peabody institute in that city. Mr. Uhler is a member of scientific societies, has been corresponding secretary and was elected president of the Maryland academy of sciences in 1873, which place he has since held, except during 1884-'8. His papers on geology, entomology, and other natural sciences have been published in the journals of most of the learned societies of the United States and Canada, in the annual reports to the trustees of Harvard, and as special reports in the volumes of the U. S. geological survey. He translated and edited, with a glossary, Dr. Hermann A. Hagen's &ldquo;Synopsis of Neuroptera of North America,&rdquo; issued by the Smithsonian institution (Washington, 1861).

ULLMANN, Daniel, soldier, b. in Wilmington, Del., 28 April, 1810. He was graduated at Yale in 1829, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised in New York, where he was master in chancery from 1839 till 1844. In 1854 he was the candidate of the American or Know-Nothing party for governor of New York, and received a very large vote. In 1861 he raised the 78th New York volunteers, in which he served as colonel, was captured in August, 1862, and confined in Libby prison until October of that year, when he was released on parole. He was promoted brigadier-general on 13 Jan., 1863, and ordered to appoint a cadre of officers and to go to Louisiana to raise five regiments of colored troops, afterward increased to a corps. This was the first order issued by the U. S. government for the raising of colored troops. He was brevetted major-general of U. S. volunteers on 13 March, 1865, was mustered out, 24 Aug., 1865, and was made major-general in November, 1865. Gen. Ullmann received the degree of LL. D. from Madison university in 1861.

ULLOA, Antonio de (ool-lo'-ah), Spanish naval officer, b. in Seville, 12 Jan., 1716; d. on the island of Leon, 3 July, 1795. After studying at Seville, he entered the navy in 1733, and was ordered to serve under the French astronomers who measured an arc of the meridian in South America. With Jorge Juan he sailed from Cadiz in May, 1735, and arrived in Carthagena five months before the French scientists, but occupied his time with bo- tanical explorations. In the geodetic observations that followed, which were begun in June, 1736, and continued four years, Ulloa was attached to La Condamine, the head of the expedition. In September. 1740, in the midst of their astronomi- cal observations, the Spanish officers were called away by the war with England, and received orders from the viceroy to put the port of Callao in a state of defence, and in 1742 he organized the forces at Guayaquil against the British under Ad- miral Anson which captured Payta. For two years afterward he cruised, in command of a frig- ate, along the coast of Chili and the island of Juan Fernandez, and on his return to Quito in 1744, where he found only Godin, the other French academicians having terminated their la- bors, he assisted in the observation of the comet that appeared in that year. In October, 1745, he embarked at Callao on a French merchant vessel which entered for repairs in the harbor of Louis- burg, Canada, decoyed by the French flag which the victorious English floated on the fortress. He was taken prisoner, and his valuable collections were confiscated, but he was released in England and recovered his collections through the interces- sion of the Royal society of London, which elected him an associate member in 1746. On his return to Spain in July he was promoted post-captain, and appointed superintendent of the mercury-mines at Jalapa in Peru. He was made rear-admiral in 1760, and became in 1764 governor of Louisiana, which had just been ceded by France ; but, failing in his efforts to win over the colonists to Spain, he was recalled in 1766. In 1770 he was made lieutenant- general of the naval forces, and in 1779 he was sent with a fleet to the Azores with sealed orders to proceed to Havana and take command of an expe- dition for the reconquest of Florida. But, being entirely occupied with scientific observations. Ul- loa forgot to open his sealed orders, and, return- ing to Cadiz after a cruise of two months, was ar- rested and tried by a court-martial in December, 1780, which acquitted him, but recommended him for land duty. During the remainder of his life Ulloa was president of the naval school for cadets at Cadiz. Ulloa formed the first cabinet of natural history in Spain and the first school of metallurgy, established at Legovia a factory where cloth was made from American products, and founded a na- val observatory at San Fernando, and other use- ful institutions. His works include "Relacion his- torica del viage a la America Meridional y observa- ciones sobre Astronomia y Fisica " (5 vols., Madrid, 1748 ; with Jorge Juan, French translation, Paris, 1752; English, London, 1758); "Noticias Ameri- canas ; entretenimientos phisico-historicos, sobre la America Meridional y la Septentrional" (1772); " Observaciones hechas en el oceano sobre un eclipse de sol con el anillo refractario" (1779; French translation, Toulouse, 1780); and "La Marina y fuerzas navales de la Europa y del Africa" (1781). David Barry published in 1828 a secret memoir on South America which he claimed to be Ulloa's work, but its authenticity is doubted.

ULLOA, Francisco de, Spanish friar, b. in Andalusia about 1498 ; d. in Seville in 1574. He united with the Dominicans at Salamanca, and was among the few that accompanied Bishop Vicente Valverde when he sailed for Cuzco in 1538. Ulloa was afterward prior of a convent in Lima, and visitor of the order. Having learned the Indian dialects, he explored the country, founded convents at Arequipa and Huanuco, and preached the gospel to the Indians in their own language with success. His influence was great in Peru, and Gonzalo Pizarro undertook to win him over to his cause, but Ulloa rejected his offers, and joined Pedro de La Gasca. The latter despatched Ulloa with letters and proclamations for the officials and inhabitants along the coast, and instructed him to buy supplies and prepare everything for the advance of the royal army. Ulloa's mission was so