S. W. Johnson on Soil-analyses, ete. 233 
Art. XXXII.— Agricultural Chemistry—Sorl-analysis: Nott 
XI. y—*Soil-analysis: Notice 9, 
the Agricultural Chemistry of the Geological Susman of ace 
and Arkansas ;* by Prof. 8. W. JoHNsoN of Yale College. 
IN no country has there been so much popular appreciation of 
practical science as in the United States of America. — ] 
one of the States is without its volume or volumes of Geological 
and Natural History Reports, and though some of them have 
been content to confine the work to the merest outline of the 
general and industrial geology of their territory, and have ex- 
vended but a few hundreds of dollars in the undertaking, others, 
ike New York, have embraced all the branches of Natural Sci- 
tmequal ability of the individuals c 
Upon the legislative bodies, or exerted | U 
cultivated and public spirited persons to whom the possible 
been explained—that has 
and depending from year to year 
the popplar vote, it has been not only politic 
a 
Support such undertakings. It has 
: to lay stress on the discoveries 
having industrial bearings which are the fruits of the work. 
_ ,, In those States where large quantities of metallic ores occur, 
the interest of capitalists engaged 1 mining has often sufficed to 
inaugurate a geological survey. _In other states the agricultural 
Sentiment has had to be operated upon. ; 
Freat results have been promised to agriculture from the nae 
cations of geology and chemistry, and a great deal of labor hi 
* Ist, 2d, 3 logical Survey of Kentucky 1854-60: 
“hag ans the Ges Resomotsanes of Arkana, iso: Agricaltara Chem- 
Chemical ea oay by Dr. D. D. Owen, princip: ogist, Pater, 
Am. Joun, Sc.—Szconp Seams, VoL. XXXII, No. 98.—Sert., 1661. 
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