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
“Synopsis of Neuroptera of North America,” 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
