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Edward A. Birge's limnology apparatus

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2020
mixed media, artifacts

UW-Madison limnologists Edward A. Birge and Chancey Juday developed innovative experiments and tools to measure the penetration of sunlight into Wisconsin lakes during the 1920s and 1930s. This set of colored water samples was likely used as a quantitative way to describe the color of water at different water depths.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Zoological Museum collection.

history of natural history, UW-Madison history
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