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RECENTLY, at King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne, more than seventy engineers and architects studied the subject of 'soil mechanics'. A week of lectures and drawing office practice under the direction of Mr. A. W. Skempton, of the Building Research Station, resulted in considerable discussion of the various aspects of the problems involved. In such discussions, the name given to this rapidly developing science was the subject of criticism on the following lines:
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HOLMES, R., STELFOX, S., TOMKEIEFF, S. et al. Geostatics. Nature 153, 716 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153716a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/153716a0
