Soil Physics

Abstract

SOIL physics, although a science having but few devotees, has grown up in two separate divisions, one dealing with soil as a habitat for plants and the other for large public buildings and roads, etc. Unfortunately these two divisions are still in almost water–tight compartments with respect to each other, there being neither any appreciable co–ordination between the two sets of workers nor, for so far as the agricultural workers are concerned, any ready access to the journals in which the civil engineering workers publish their results. The consequence is that text–books form the only easy means of finding out what the other workers are doing. The civil engineers are much better provided for than their agricultural confreres in this respect, as several good text–books have been published for them in recent years, while the last standard text–book on soil physics from the agricultural side was Keen's monograph published in 1931 and long since almost unobtainable. Now comes Baver's book to fill this important gap.

Soil Physics

By L. D. Baver. Pp. xi + 370. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1940.) 24s. net.