Abstract
1. A sample of marine silt taken from the foreshore of the N.W. coastal belt of the Wash was found as the result of a mineralogical examination to contain dolomite in its mineral assemblage.2. It was surmised from this discovery that should dolomite be a normal constituent of soils derived from marine silts, its presence might modify in them certain processes such as nitrification in which the neutralising effect of a quick acting base is an essential factor.3. This supposition was strengthened by certain culture experiments on nitrification, and was to some extent established as a fact by a detailed chemical investigation into the nature of the carbonate content of several soils of known geological and agricultural history.
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