NOTES. 



Alabama College and Station. — Dr. Wright A. Gardner, formerly a&-;ociate 

 professor of botany and plant physiologist at tlie Idaho University and St;itioa, 

 has been appointed plant physiologist and liead of the department of l)<)tany. 



California University and Station. — Dr. Robert H. Loughridge, widely known 

 as a pioneer research worker in soil chemistry and emeritus professor of 

 agricultural chemistry, died July 1 at Waco, Texas. 



Dr. Loughridge was the son of the first missionary to go to the Creek Nation 

 after these Indians moved from Florida, and was born at the Presbyterian 

 mission station at Koweta, Indian Territory, on October 9, 1843. lie wjus 

 educatefl at the mission school established by his father and entered La Grange 

 Synodical College In Tennessee in 18G0. He left college In 18C2 to serve in the 

 Civil War, and at its close became a student in the University of MisslssippL 

 Here he became acquainted with Dr. E. W. Hilgard, with whom he was sub- 

 .sequently so closely associated. 



Dr. Loughridge was graduated from this institution in 1S71 and In 1878 

 received the degree of I'h. D. From 1874 to 1878 he was adjunct professor of 

 chemistry in the university and assistant State geologist of Mississippi. Sub- 

 sequently he assisted Professor Hilgard In the preparation of his report on 

 cotton protluction for the Tenth Census and served as assistant State geologist 

 in turn of Georgia, Kentucky, and South Carolina. He was also professor of 

 agricultural chemistry of the University of South Carolina from 1SS5-1S90. and 

 instituted considerable exi>erlmental work with hold crops, fertilizers, etc., ai ' 

 that institution. 



In 1891 he came to the University of California, teaching agricultuml 

 chemistry and participating In the classical researches of Professor Hilgard a.«» 

 to the chemistry, physics, and geology of the soils of California, methcxls for 

 the reclamation of alkali lands, scientific problems of the relation of the Irriga- 

 tion and drainage to the qualities of California soils, and the problem of main- 

 taining and increasing nitrogen In those soils. His retirement from active 

 service in 1909 was noted editorially In the Record (E. S. It,. 21, p. 4). 



Dr. Ix)Ughridge was a fellow of the American As.sociatlon for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and the Geological Society of America and a member of the 

 Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science and many other organiza- 

 tions. He was also the author or joint author of numerous publications. 



Connecticnt College and Storrs Station. — According to a note In Science, Austin 

 C. Dunham has offered the college his farm of 130 acres at Newington for use 

 for school purposes. About $50,000 has been exjiended In Improving the prop- 

 erty, which is considered one of the best equippe<l in the State. 



Arthur G. Gulley, for 23 years professor of horticulture, died Augiuit 16 at 

 the age of 68 years. Professor Gulley was a graduate of the Michigan ColU^e 

 In 1868 and receivetl the ma.«;ter's degree from the same institution in 1873. 



B. G. Southwlck, assistant agronomist, has l)een appolnte«i extensliMi agrono- 

 mist and station field agent, devoting one-quarter of his time to tlie station 

 and the remainder to extension work. 

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