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cine, begun at that time, was continued in Baltimore, and 
in 1866 he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from 
the University of Maryland. The degree of Master of Arts, 
in regular course, was also conferred upon him by Harvard 
College in 1865. 
On June 18, 1866, a few months after completing his 
medical education, Dr. Kidder was commissioned an as¬ 
sistant surgeon in the United States Navy, in which he 
served for eighteen years with much distinction. He was 
promoted to passed assistant surgeon April 5, 1871, and to 
surgeon May 19,1876, and resigned his commission June 18, 
1884. 
His first detail was to the Naval Asylum at Philadelphia, 
where he remained a little over a year. From 1867 to 1870 
he was attached as assistant medical officer to the United 
States ship Idaho, then stationed off Nagasaki, Japan, as 
the general hospital for the Asiatic squadron. While on this 
station he received from the King of Portugal the decoration 
of the Military Order of Christ, in recognition of gracious 
professional services to a distressed vessel of His Majesty’s 
navy; and during the memorable typhoon of September 
21, 1868, he displayed his faculty for accurate observation 
by making a careful plotting of the storm’s track. In 1874 
and 1875 he served, in connection with the United States 
steamer Swatara, as surgeon and naturalist of the Transit 
of Venus expedition to Kerguelen island, and in 1877 and 
1878 as surgeon of the United States steamer Alliance in 
the Mediterranean. On the latter cruise he was married, at 
Constantinople, September 18,1878, to Anne Mary, daughter 
of the Honorable Horace Maynard, Minister of the United 
States to Turkey. During the summers of 1875 and 1879 
he was assigned to special duty with the small naval steamers 
Bluelight and Speedwell, engaged in fishery investigations 
on the New England coast, and in December, 1882, became 
the first surgeon of the Fish Commission steamer Albatross, 
on which he remained until the following April. His shore 
service was performed mainly at the Naval Hospital and 
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