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Edward A. Birge
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Edward A. Birge and Chancey Juday with plankton trap in Lake Mendota. From album of photographs relating to the research in limnology conducted at Trout Lake, and elsewhere by Edward A. Birge, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1917
Birge, Edward A. (Edward Asahel)
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Birge and Juday on the Ice
circa 1930-1939
Dr. Edward Birge (left) and Chancey Juday (center) do limnology research on the ice with a mud thermometer.
Limnology Apparatus
1890
Apparatus for limnological research conducted at Trout Lake, Wisconsin and elsewhere.
Group Portrait
1934
A group of scientists posing together for a group portrait. E.A. Birge is the first man on the right, and Chancey Juday is in the center of the group, sixth man from the right.
Birge and Juday
1925
Limnologist Dr. Edward Birge (left) and Professor Chauncey Juday posing together outdoors at what is probably the lake research laboratory in Trout Lake.
North Trout Lake
circa 1930-1939
View towards a boat pulled up on the sandy, curving shoreline of North Trout Lake.
Dr. Birge on Trout Lake
circa 1930-1939
Dr. Edward Ashael Birge paddling on a raft in Trout Lake. In 1875 Dr. Birge first came to teach natural history at the University of Wisconsin, and remained part of the institution for the next 75 ...
