Abstract
IS a man a better farmer for understanding the meaning of the word colloid? Dr. Marshall evidently thinks so, since he has written his book for agricultural students, rural instructors, district lecturers and county organisers. His plan is first to outline the classical investigations of colloid science and then to apply some of the principles which emerge to agricultural subjects. All this is admirable so long as it is agreed that instruction of this kind is wanted. But is it ?
Colloids in Agriculture
By Dr. C. E. Marshall. Pp. viii + 184. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1935.) 5s. net.
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SCHOFIELD, R. Colloids in Agriculture. Nature 137, 847–848 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137847a0
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