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THE serious nature of the problem of soil erosion in many parts of the British Colonial Empire has been realized for some time, and in recent years much has been done to extend conservation measures. Considerables experience has accumulated since the position was last reviewed in 1944 ; but the more recent information has remained scattered, and in 1946 with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a questionnaire was sent to the directors of agriculture in dependencies where soil conservation had made good progress. The information received, supplemented by data from published papers and reports, has been collected together by Sir Harold A. Tempany and issued by the Commonwealth Bureau of Soil Science, Harpenden, as Technical Communication No. 45, "The Practice of Soil Conservation in the British Colonial Empire" (Aberystwyth : Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, 1949. 10s.).
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Soil Conservation in British Colonies. Nature 163, 926–927 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163926b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163926b0