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THIS is an interesting and useful little book for the general reader. Although couched in the form of letters, the material apparently consists of the author's lectures to first-year students of agricultural science, omitting the more complicated diagrams and tabular matter but retaining the occasional shafts of professorial humour which relieve the tedium of yearly repetition-at any rate for the lecturer. There are seventeen chapters, or letters; beginning with a discussion of soil material, they pass to a description of soil profiles and surveys and their bearing on problems of soil fertility and the correct agricultural utilization of the various soil types.
Mother Earth:
being Letters on Soil addressed to Professor R. G. Stapledon. By Prof. Gilbert Wooding Robinson. Pp. viii + 202. (London: Thomas Murby and Co., 1937.) 5s. 6d. net.
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Agriculture. Nature 142, 658 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142658a0
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