The composite character of the soil profile, its relation to soil classification

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The scheme of soil classification which finds most favour among scientists to-day has come from Russia and is the work of a band of brilliant and enthusiastic investigators whose labours have brought some order to what was otherwise chaos. The object of this communication is to endeavour to show how it is possible to modify the views of this school so as to make them apply to British conditions, and how the majority of British soils may be brought within the envisaged scheme.