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THE reissue of this well-known textbook will be welcomed by all engaged in agricultural teaching. Appearing first in 1903, it had passed through three editions, with many reprints, by 1920, and has now reached a fourth edition. These facts alone indicate plainly the welcome given to the book in the past, and the reason for this is not far to seek. It demands no wide knowledge of the pure sciences on the part of the reader. It accepts the average student of agriculture as his lecturer generally finds him—a man anxious to know something of the fundamental scientific facts underlying his profession but by force of circumstances quite unable to undertake a thorough scientific training before beginning his more technical studies.
The Soil: an Introduction to the Scientific Study of the Growth of Crops.
By Sir A. D. Hall. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. xvii + 388. (London: John Murray, 1931.) 9s. net.
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NEVILLE, H. Physics and Chemistry of the Soil. Nature 129, 706 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129706a0
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