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PROF. ROBINSON'S novel treatment of soil science evidently ‘met a long-felt want’, for a new edition has been required in less than four years. The rapidly developing subject of pedology has many more intimate links with other branches of science than had the older agricultural chemical treatment of soils. At the same time, it bears more closely on those general questions of land classification and utilisation which are becoming increasingly urgent. Surveys and planning must be preceded by careful study of the objects to be classified and their relationships to environmental and historical factors. Prof. Robinson's book shows how far the modern science of soils has been able to go in the interpretation of the formation and behaviour of soils. The geographical and genetic aspects are kept in the foreground throughout, while the more purely technical and agricultural ones are treated very briefly indeed. The book can be strongly recommended to workers in many branches of natural and applied science.
Soils:
their Origin, Constitution and Classification; an Introduction to Pedology. By Prof. G. W. Robinson. Second edition. Pp. xvii + 442 + 5 plates. (London: Thomas Murby and Co., 1936.) 20s. net.
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Soils. Nature 138, 9 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138009c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138009c0