University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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18 ggg THLLUNIKERSITY 'BADGER ggvgvg- 195 Biographies. IDCEIDS of E6DSlYfl'l16lIf5. Dibvoarb Elsabel 5Birge. DVVARD ASAHEL BIRGE was born at Troy, New York, September 7, 1851. In his infancy his parents, Edward White Birge and Ann Stevens Birge, moved to a farm near New Haven, Conn. In 1863, the family returned to Troy, where young Birge studied in the Grammar School and High School, graduating in 1869. In the fall of the same year he entered the Freshman class of Williams College. During his course he took prizes in German, Latin, Greek and Natural History. He graduated with the degree of A B. in 1873- second in his class. In the fall he began work in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, study- ing under Prof. Agassiz until his death in December, 1873. His studies were continued under Profs. Macrady, Shaler, Goodale and Hagen until December, 1875. He returned to Cambridge, also, for the fall term of 1876. In 1878 he was granted by Harvard University the degree of Ph. D., his thesis being on the Cladocera of Cambridge, Mass., and Madison, Wis., printed in part in Vol. IV. of the Transactions of the II'isco11s1'n Academy of Science, Arts and Letters. Dr. Birge was elected Instructor in Natural History in the Universitv of Wisconsin in 1875, but for the first two years was on duty only during the second and third terms. In 1879 he was elected Professor of Zoology. Por the College year of 1880-81 he was granted leave of absence, and studied histolo0'v and . C-f physiology in the laboratory of Prof. Ludwig, at Leipzig University. As a result of the work of this year, papers were published on the Motor Cells ofthe Spinal Cord, in Archiv fur Anatomic and P11-vsiologie. These papers were reprinted in part in Vol. VI. of the Transactions of the Wisconsni Academy. Dr. Birge was elected Dean of the College of Science and Letters in the University of 'Wisconsin in 1890, since which date he as perfoi med both the duties of P1 ofessoi of Zoology and of Dean.

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