Biographical Sketches: EDWARD ASAHEL BIRGE ********************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ File Contributed by Lori Niemuth, dawnlea@ticon.net ********************************************************************* The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under the direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics 1907. The Wisconsin Blue Book. VII. Biographical Sketches. University Department Heads. [Dean of the College of Letters and Science] (p. 1180) 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 phsiology [physiology] in the University of Leipsic, Germany, during the college years 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 Silence and served as acting president 1900-03. 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 Microscopal Society. His papers are on scientific subjects, mainly in the Archiv für Physilogie, the Biologisches Centraliblatt, and the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.