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THE third edition of this text-book, issued under a slight change of title, aims at bringing its subject up-to-date for the use of students of advanced university standard. The considerable recent advances in our knowledge of soil structure and chemistry, and in the bearings of soil biology on plant growth, have been incorporated, compensation of space being made by judicious omissions of certain ideas and methods which are either out-of-date or have failed to fulfil their promise of usefulness. A concession to more advanced students is made by the inclusion of pertinent mathematical data in the appendix, to which are also removed from the text various tables only required for occasional reference, whereby the handiness of the book is considerably increased.
The Science of Soils and Manures.
By J. Alan Murray. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. xiv+298. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1925.) 12s. 6d. net.
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B., W. The Science of Soils and Manures . Nature 117, 549 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117549a0
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