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THE papers presented to the third International Congress on Soil Science, held recently at Oxford, embody work that is representative of most aspects of soil science; these are issued in two volumes (London: Thomas Murby and Co., 1935). The first volume contains those presented to the several commissions, and the second includes papers read at the plenary sessions, together with the address of the president, Sir John Russell. The papers are in English, French or German. The president, in his address, dealt with the contribution of soil science towards improving economic conditions, mentioning in particular the value of the surveying and mapping of soils as a preliminary to all schemes of agricultural development. As interesting examples of such contribution, those mentioned by Hardy, in his paper on “Some Aspects of Tropical Soils”, may be quoted; these dealt more particularly with quantitative soil profile investigations. In the Caribbean region, for example, studies of this nature have rendered possible the exact definition of soil best adapted to the growth of several important orchard and field crops, and have made manifest certain soil factors that are definitely harmful to those crops. This aspect of soil work was dealt with by the commission on soil genesis, morphology and cartography and by that on the application of soil science to land amelioration.
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International Congress on Soil Science. Nature 136, 546 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136546b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136546b0