Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....BIRGE, EDWARD ASAHEL
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Author: Halford Erickson

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH
CONGRESS. UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT HEADS.

EDWARD ASAHEL BIRGE, Ph. D., Sc. D., Dean of the College
of Letters and Science, was born Sept. 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, and of Doctor
of Science (honorary) from the Western University of
Pennsylvania in 1897; studied histology and physiology in
the University of Leipsic, Germany, during the college
year 188O-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 and served as acting
president 1900-3. He is secretary of the Wisconsin
Commissioners of Fisheries, superintendent of the
Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, president
of the Madison Public Library, and president of the
American Microscopical Society. His papers are on
scientific subjects, mainly in the Archiv fur Physiologie,
the Biologisches Centrallblatt, and the Transactions of
the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.

Additional Comments:
Erickson, Halford.  The Blue Book of the State of
Wisconsin. Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer,
1905.

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