PROCEEDINGS OF THE CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT. 



509 



Soluble in Hydrochloric Acid. 



100-00 



100 000 



SOIL FROM MR NICOLL, LITTLETON. 



Mr Nicoll's soil may be described as a somewhat stiff loam 

 of good quality, and remarkably free from gravel, of which it 

 contains only a fraction of a per cent., consisting of fragments of 

 rock of such small size that it was impossible to make out their 

 nature. Its colour was pale brown, and it contained a rather 

 large proportion of small roots mixed through it. The subsoil 

 was very similar, but more sandy. The soil is remarkably 

 deficient in phosphoric acid. 



2L 



