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Soil and Vegetation in British Somaliland
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Soil and Vegetation in British Somaliland

  • P. E. GLOVER1 

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I HAVE read with interest and grave misgivings Dr. W. A. Macfadyen's short communication in Nature of January 21, p. 121, and can only conclude that he had misinterpreted the two factors which he claims have been generally overlooked.

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GLOVER, P. Soil and Vegetation in British Somaliland. Nature 165, 901 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/165901a0

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