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WHILST no outstanding changes have been made in the third edition of Prof. Comber's deservedly well-known book, its subject-matter has been brought fully up to date without sacrifice to the conciseness and clarity of the original text. The book is intended for agricultural and horticultural students, that is, those whose interest in the soil has a strong practical bias ; nevertheless, the scientific point of view is maintained so consistently in each chapter that the student is led to think of the soil as much from the pedological as from the purely practical point of view. Indeed, the greater part of the book is concerned with the study of soil as a natural entity, quite apart from the problem of its agricultural utilization. It is perhaps the chapters dealing with the main facts of soil physics and soil chemistry that help the reader most to bridge the apparent gap between the scientific and the practical approach to the study of soil.
An Introduction to the Scientific Study of the Soil
By Prof. Norman M. Comber. Third edition. Pp. vii + 206. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1936.) 7s. 6d. net.
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L., A. An Introduction to the Scientific Study of the Soil. Nature 142, 855 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142855a0
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