Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Birge, Edward Asahel 
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Source: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897
Author: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson

HEADS OF INSTRUCTIONAL FORCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OE WISCONSIN.
EDWARD ASAHEL BIRGE, Ph. D., Dean of the College of Letters and Science, was 
born September 7, 1851, at Troy, N. Y.; graduated from Williams College in 
1873, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and received the degree of Master of 
Arts in 1876; studied zoology in the Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology at 
Cambridge, Mass., until December, 1875; received the degree of Doctor of 
Philosophy from Harvard University in 1878; studied histology and physiology in 
the University of Leipsic, Germany, during the college year of 1880-1; elected 
instructor in natural history at the University of Wisconsin in 1875; professor 
of zoology in 1879, and in 1891 received the additional office of dean of the 
College of Letters and Science. His papers are scientific papers, mainly in the 
Archive fur Physiologie, the Biologisches Centrallblatt, and the Transactions 
Df the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.

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