Abstract
SOME time ago the Royal Hungarian Geological Institute sent out letters of invitation to those interested in soils in the various countries of Europe and America asking them to attend an International Conference in Budapest, where some attempt would be made at standardising methods and objects. Some degree of uniformity is urgently needed. “Plus que partout ailleurs,” says the secretary in his introduction to the present volume, “il y règne une disparité d'idées, de méthodes, de procédés, une divergence de vue sur le chemin à prendre et sur le but à atteindre, un chaos dans l'usage des termes scientifiques, des mesures, des figurés, des noms et des classifications: divergence qui se manifeste non seulement de pays à pays, de langue à langue, mais aussi entre les œuvres d'un meme pays et dans la littérature d'une mêime langue.” Some confusion is for a time inevitable in a borderland subject like the present, that joins up with geology, botany, and chemistry, and is closely connected with agriculture; indeed, even its very name has not yet been settled, for we find the subject of the conference referred to as agrogeology, agricultural geology, pedology, or simply “the science of the soil.”
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
RUSSELL, E. The First International Agro-Geological Conference 1 . Nature 84, 157–158 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084157a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/084157a0