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from 1885 to 1890. From South Carolina he was called again to the Uni- 

 versity of California as assistant to his friend Hilgard, and at that insti- 

 tution he remained the rest of his life, as Assistant Professor of Agricul- 

 tural Chemistr}' and Agricultural Geology from 1891 to 1908 ; as Associate 

 Professor of Agricultural Chemistry, 1908 and 1909 ; and as emeritus 

 professor, 1909 until his death. 



He was married October 19, 1886, to Miss Bessie Webb, of Xew Orleans, 

 who died at their home in Berkeley, Januarv' 23, 1895. There were no 

 children by this marriage. 



On May 22, 1917, Doctor Loughridge, while on the way to take a train 

 at Berkeley, was seized by an acute attack of heart troul^le. After a par- 

 tial recovery he was taken to the home of his brother, James A. Lough- 

 ridge, in AVaco, Texas, where he died, July 1, 1917. He was a member 

 of the Presbyterian Church, as was his father before him. He was a 

 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and 

 of the Geological Society of America ; mem];)er of the Society for the Pro- 

 motion of Agricultural Science; of the Forestry Association, and of the 

 American Geographical Society. 



From December, 1868, to July, 1871, the present writer was assistant 

 on the Geological Survey of Mississippi, engaged during the summer 

 months in field-work and the rest of the time in making analyses of soils 

 and marls of Mississippi in the university laboratory under the direction 

 of Doctor Hilgard. Loughridge at that time was a student engaged in 

 special chemical work in the same laboratory. In this Avay I came to 

 know him veiy well, both as to his personal character and as to his sci- 

 entific work. When I came to the University of Alabama, in the fall of 

 1871, Loughridge took up my work with the Mississippi Sur\'ey, making 

 numerous soil and marl analyses, afterwards published in the Cotton Cul- 

 ture reports. 



Dr. George Little, as State Geologist of Mississippi from 1866 to 1870 

 and as Professor of Geology in the University of ]\Iississippi from 1870 

 to 1874, had ample opportunity for becoming well acquainted with Lough- 

 ridge's work, and when in 1874 he became State Geologist of Georgia he 

 offered the position of assistant on the Georgia Survey to Loughridge, 

 who held the position from 1874 to 1878. 



Then came the preparation of the reports on cotton culture for the 

 Tenth Census, which Doctor Hilgard had undertaken at the request of 

 the Superintendent, Gen. Francis A. Walker. Loughridge was immedi- 

 ately called into service by Dr. Hilgard, whose chief assistant he Avas until 

 the Cotton Culture reports were finished and turned over to the printers, 

 some time in 1882. During these four 3'ears Loughridge prepared the 



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