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agrogeology" was held in Budapest in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in April .  Glinka presented a paper on soil zones and soil types in European and Asiatic Russia, drawing on his expeditions, illustrated by a collection of soil samples and a map of their geographical distribution. He reported to his Russian colleagues that their works were cited with approval by several delegates. During post-conference excursions, participants saw "Chernozems" and other soils in the Hungarian plain,  which is a "bay" of the "continental ocean" of the steppes to the east.  There were no Americans present, but Hilgard, who disagreed sharply with Whitney, sent a paper on chemical analysis.  The second agrogeological conference was held in Stockholm, Sweden, in . More progress was made towards common approaches. There was one Russian delegate, but again no Americans. Hilgard and R. H. Loughridge sent a paper reviewing geological, physical, chemical, climatic, and vegetative systems for classifying soils. Hilgard, characteristically, criticized Whitney and his system: the physical point of view alone conspicuously fails as the sole basis of a general classification, such as has been attempte

Author

Moon, David

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

2020

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