Ida H. Hyde letter, 1894.

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Ida H. Hyde letter, 1894.

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Letter from Ida Henrietta Hyde, from Strassburg, Feb. 8, 1894, to "My dear Dr. Whitman" [presumably Charles Otis Whitman, b. 1842-d. 1910] concerning her experiences at the University of Strassburg where she studied physiology, but was unable to obtain the Ph.D. degree because of University regulations. She comments on the general opposition to higher education for women to be found among the educated class in Germany and tells of her success in persuading the faculty of the University of Heidelberg to allow her to become a candidate for the Ph.D. degree.

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Universität Heidelberg.

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Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strassburg.

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Whitman, Charles Otis, 1842-1910

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Professor and Head, Department of Zoology, University of Chicago, 1892-1910. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1911]. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52247332 Charles Otis Whitman was a leading American morphologist, embryologist, and behaviorist. Born about 1850, he became the founder of the Marine Biological Laboratories at Woods Hole, Massachusetts (1888) and of the Journal of Morphology. His scientific work argued for a blend of ortho...

Hyde, Ida Henrietta, 1863-1945

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Ida Henrietta Hyde, Cornell University Class of 1891; Heidelberg Ph.D., 1896, was the first American woman to get a Ph.D. at a German university. Dr. Whitman, judging from internal evidence in the letter, appears to be the director of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood's Hole, Mass. from its foundation in 1888 to 1908, and, from 1892 until his death, professor and head of the Zoology Department at the University of Chicago. From the description of Ida H...