sion of each definition,.

Та front of each Russian term there is an order number serving
for the utilisation of alphabetical Buglish, Franch and German in-
dexes introduced consequently after the main text,

The important peculiarity of the present dictionary is, that
this is not a 1list of recommended for general utilisation terms of
any one school, but the encyclopedic dictionary of existing in the
world practice terms with their translations iato three languages.
А1во important to mention, that there are in the dictionary the
translations but not the possible correlations of the terms. The
correlation of the terms of various schools is beyond the scope of
the present dictionary and should be the subgect of consequent

Jjoiat studies 10 ianternational scale.
Author is fully aware of the fact that the work presented here

is too far from the perfect and serves only as a firat step on the
way of creation of an unified dictionary of soil nomenclature, which
sbould be the result of combined work of many scientists. In this
connection the preseant dictionary should be regarded as a first ap-
proximation and as a more or less sorted pile of raw material for
the future work. Numerous of the collected here terms and their de-
finitions are disputable or not precise, some mistakes are possible
in the translations. In the process of the following collective work
all these unavoidable at the first stage incorrectnesses should be
eliminated, Author is grateful in advance for any constructive cri-
ticism directed to the improvement of the dictionary.

The 1list of references used at the composition of the dictiona-
ry is attached to the Russian text of the foreword.