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No mention has, however, yet been made in this memoir 

 of what is rightly regarded as l\'lr. Marchand's Hfe-work — the 

 Labonr Colony at Kakamas, on the Orange River. A descriptive 

 outline of certain phases of the work there appeared in a pre- 

 vious volume.* For services rendered to Church and State the 

 name of Mr. Marchand will be long and gratefully associated 

 with that of Kakamas. What is commonly known as the " poor 

 white " problem had for many years been becoming increasingly 

 urgent, and the eminently business capacity which Mr. Marchand 

 possessed, in conjunction with his other qualifications, made 

 him specially fitted to deal with it. The conviction had forced 

 itself on him that it was the plain duty of the Church to uplift 

 the fallen and the sinking, and so he initiated the project which 

 has since proved so successful. He had visited, in Euro})e, 

 institutions in character analogous to that which subsequently 

 arose on the banks of the Orange River, and he reiterated his 

 views and urged his pleas before successive Synods of the 

 Dutch Church of the Cape Colony until at length he won through 

 in 1897, brought the church to undertake the social scheme on 

 which he had set his heart, and thus was begun the work which 

 has since expanded beyond all expectations, and with the assis- 

 tance of Government and warm approval of all parties, has met 

 with a measure of success worthy of all the admiration bestowed 

 on the foresight and ]:)ersistence of its originator. 



His last visit to the now flourishing colony took place barely 

 a month before his death, the occasion being the dedication of 

 the newly-erected church at Marchand. To the cost of erecting 

 this building he had personally contributed £200. and he had 

 naturally been invited to deliver the inatigural sermon in this 

 connection. As long as Kakamas, with all its ramifications and 

 activities, endures, so long will the name and work of Bernard 

 Marchand have a monument in South Africa. 



R. H. LOUGHRIDGE. — The death is announced of Dr. 

 Robert H. Loughridge, emeritus professor of agricviltural chem- 

 istry in the University of California. The name of Dr. Lough- 

 ridge had a world-wide association with that of the late Prof. 

 E. W. Hilgard as a pioneer research worker in soil chemistry. 

 Their connection began half a century ago at the University of 

 Mississippi, where Loughridge was at first the pupil and after- 

 wards the colleague of Hilgard. From 1885 to 1890 he occupied 

 the chair of agricultural chemistry in the University of South 

 Carolina. He then again became Hilgard's colleague in the Uni- 

 versity of California, and shared in the classical researches which 

 made Hilgard famous as one of the world's premier soil chemists 

 and physicists, particularly in the study of the reclamation of 

 brack lands, the problem of maintaining and augmenting soil 

 nitrogen, and the aoplication of analytical methods to ascertain 

 the reserve stores of plant food in soils. 



*"An Irrigation Settlement": Rept. S.J. Assoc, for Adv. of Sc. 

 )»r;intzbnrg ('1916), 327-334. 

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