Abstract
THE fact that a second edition of this book is necessary is a welcome evidence of the increased attention which is being paid to the study of the soil and also of the undoubted value of the work. This edition has evidently been most carefully revised in the light of modern investigation, and is an accurate record of existing knowledge on the soil considered from its mechanical, chemical, and biological aspects. Ten years ago we were almost entirely indebted to American or German workers for any scientific monograph on the soil, then only considered from its physical and chemical aspects, but in this work we have in addition a most valuable chapter on the functions of bacteria and fungi in the soil, in which a well balanced judgment is pronounced on certain recently much advertised work which has not yet received the sanction of scientific opinion or even a trustworthy confirmation of its accuracy by practical men.
The Soil.
An Introduction to the Scientific Study of the Growth of Crops. Second edition, revised and enlarged. By A. D. Hall. Pp. xv+311. (London: John Murray, 1908.) Price 5s. net.
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D., M. The Soil . Nature 79, 127 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/079127a0
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