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THE number of analyses conducted every day on soils must be very large, yet apart from Gedroiz's and Lemmerman's works in Russian or German, and Wiley's “Agricultural Analysis”, vol. 1, there was until now no textbook on the subject. Most workers have had to get their information from sections in general textbooks or in the “Chemists' Year-Book”, or from the original literature. In the inevitable phrase, then, Wright's “Soil Analysis” supplies a long-felt want. Moreover, it does so exceedingly well. Without being cumbrous, it is comprehensive; and-a matter of particular importance in a subject where methods are revised and new conceptions are introduced as rapidly as in soil science-it is right up to date.
Soil Analysis: a Handbook of Physical and Chemical Methods.
By C. Harold Wright. Pp. viii + 236. (London: Thomas Murby and Co.; New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., 1934.) 12s. 6d. net.
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Soil Analysis: a Handbook of Physical and Chemical Methods . Nature 135, 326 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135326b0
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