Wood and Forest. William Noyes

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      Busbridge, Harold, The Shrinkage and Warping of Timber. Sci. Amer. Suppl., No. 1500, Oct. 1, 1904. Good photographic illustrations.

      Comstock, J. H. and A. B., A Manual for the Study of Insects. Ithaca, N. Y.: Comstock Publishing Co., 701 pp. Valuable for reference in classifying insects injurious to wood.

      Curtis, Carleton C., Nature and Development of Plants. N. Y.: Henry Holt & Co., 1907, 471 pp. Chapter III is a very clear and excellent discussion of the structure of the stem of plants (including wood).

      Encyclopedia Brittannica, Eleventh Edition, Cambridge: At the University Press. Article: Forests and Forestry, Vol. 10, p. 645. Article: Plants, Anatomy of, Vol. 21, p. 741. Article: Timber Vol. 26, p. 978.

      Felt, E. P., The Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths. N. Y. State Museum: Bulletin 103, Entomology, 25. Valuable for colored illustrations as well as for detailed descriptions.

      Fernow, B. E., Economics of Forestry. N. Y.: T. Y. Crowell & Co. 1902, quarto 520 pp. A treatment of forests and forestry from the standpoint of economics, including a comprehensive exposition of the forester's art, with chapters on forest conditions, silviculture, forest policies, and methods of business conduct, with a bibliography.

      Fernow, B. E., Report upon the Forestry Investigation of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1887-1898. Fifty-fifth Congress, House of Representatives, Document No. 181. Quarto, 401 pp. A review of forests and forestry in the U. S., of forest policies of European nations, particularly of Germany, of the principles of silviculture, of a discussion of forest influences, and a section on timber physics.

      Harwood, W. S., The New Earth. N. Y.: The Macmillan Co., 1906. 378 pp. A recital of the triumphs of modern agriculture. Chap. X on modern forestry, describes what has been done in different states in conservative lumbering.

      Hough, Romeyn B., American Woods. Lowville, N. Y.: The author. An invaluable collection in eleven volumes (boxes) of sections of 275 species of American woods. There are three sections of each species, cross, radial, and tangential, mounted in cardboard panels. Accompanied by a list of descriptions and analytical keys.

      Hough, Romeyn B., Handbook of the Trees of the Northern States and Canada. Lowville, N. Y.: The author. 470 pp. A unique, elegant, and sumptuously illustrated book, with photographs of tree, trunk, leaf, fruit, bud, and sometimes wood, a map of the habitat of each species, and a full and careful description of tree and wood. Intended for botanists, foresters and lumbermen.

      Johnson, J. B., The Materials of Construction. N. Y.: John Wiley & Sons. 1898. 775 pp. Chapter XIII is identical with Forestry Bulletin X, Roth's Timber.

      Keeler, Harriet, Our Native Trees. N. Y.: Scribner's. 1900. 533 pp. A very attractive and popular book showing great familiarity with the common trees and love of them. Numerous photographs and drawings.

      Lounsberry, Alice, A Guide to the Trees. N. Y.: Frederick A. Stokes Co. 313 pp. A popular description of some 200 common trees, with plentiful illustrations.

      Pinchot, Gifford, A Primer of Forestry. Parts I and II, U. S. Dept. of Agric. For. Serv. Bull. No. 24. 88 pp. and 88 pp. A concise, clear, and fully illustrated little manual of forestry conditions, forest enemies, forestry principles and practice abroad and in the U. S.

      Pinchot, Gifford, The Adirondack Spruce. N. Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons. A technical account of the author's investigations on a forest estate in Northern New York.

      Price, O. W., Saving the Southern Forests. World's Work, 5: 3207, March, '03. A plea for conservative lumbering; excellent illustrations.

      Record, Samuel J., Characterization of the Grain and Texture of Wood. Woodcraft, 15: 3, June, 1911.

      Roth, Filibert, A First Book of Forestry. Boston: Ginn & Co. 291 pp. A book for young people, giving in an interesting form many valuable facts about American forests and their care and use. It includes a leaf key to the trees.

      Sargent, Charles Sprague, Forest Trees of North America. U. S. 10th Census, Vol. 9. Quarto, 612 pp. Part I deals with the distribution of the forests, and gives a catalog and description of the forest trees of North America, exclusive of Mexico. Part II. Tables of properties of the woods of the U. S. Part III. The economic aspects of the forests of the U. S. considered geographically, and maps showing distributions and densities. Exceedingly valuable.

      Sargent, Charles Sprague, Jesup Collection, The Woods of the U. S. N. Y.: D. Appleton & Co., 203 pp. A detailed description of the Jesup Collection of North American Woods in the American Museum of Natural History, N. Y. City, with valuable tables as to strength, elasticity, hardness, weight, etc. Condensed from Vol. IX of 10th U. S. Census.

      Sargent, Charles Sprague, Manual of the Trees of North America. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 826 pp. A compact mine of information, with some errors, about the known trees of North America and their woods, summarized from Sargent's larger work, "The Silva of North America." (See below.)

      Sargent, Charles Sprague, The Silva of North America. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co. A monumental and sumptuous work of 14 quarto volumes, describing in great detail all the known trees of North America and their woods, with beautiful line drawings of leaves and fruits.

      Shaler, Nathaniel S., The United States of America. Vol. 1, pp. 485-517. N. Y.: D. Appleton & Co. Chapter IX is a popular description of American forests and the Lumber Industry.

      Snow, Chas. Henry, The Principal Species of Wood. N. Y.: John Wiley & Sons. 203 pp. Descriptions and data regarding the economically important varieties of wood, with excellent photographs of trees and woods.

      Strasburger, Noll, Schenck, and Schimper. A Text Book of Botany. N. Y.: Macmillan & Co. 746 pp. Valuable for minute information about the morphology of wood.

      U. S. Tenth Census, Vol. IX. See Sargent.

      U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Bulletins. The character of these government pamphlets is well indicated by their titles. No. 10 is an exceedingly valuable summary of the facts about the structure and properties of wood, contains the best available key to identification of common American woods (not trees) and a concise description of each. It is incorporated, as Chap. XIII, in Johnson's, "The Materials for Construction." N. Y.: John Wiley & Sons. Nos. 13 and 22 are large monographs containing much valuable information.

      No. 10. Filibert Roth, Timber.

      No. 13. Charles Mohr, The Timber Pines of the Southern United States.

      No. 15. Frederick V. Coville, Forest Growth and Sheep Grazing in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon.

      No. 16. Filibert Roth, Forestry Conditions in Wisconsin.

      No. 17. George B. Sudworth, Check List of the Forest Trees of the United States, 1898.

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