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SOIL investigators all over the world will learn with deep regret of the death on October 5 of Prof. K. K. Gedroiz of the Dokuehaiev Soil Institute, Leningrad, and until lately president of the International Society of Soil Science. He was born in 1872 in Bessarabia, was educated in Kief and graduated in 1897 as a forest engineer at the School of Forestry in Leningrad. He then became assistant to Kossovitch at the Agro-chemical Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture. In 1915 he was appointed editor of the Russian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, and in 1919 was made professor of soils at the School of Forestry: later on, in 1922, he became lecturer in agricultural chemistry at Nossov, and after Glinka's death in 1928 he was elected a member of the Russian Academy of Science and director of the Dokuehaiev Soil Institute, where he was specially concerned with the laboratory investigations of the soil and also with the soils of the podsol zone.
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Russell, E. Prof. K. K. Gedroiz. Nature 130, 729 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130729a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130729a0