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The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties: First EditionSnow, Charles H. (Charles Henry)

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The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties: First Edition

Name: The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties: First Edition
Author: Snow, Charles H. (Charles Henry)

Snow, Charles H. (Charles Henry)

Wood

Acknowledgments are particularly due to the publications of the U. S.
Division of Forestry, to Prof. Sargent's studies as set forth in Vol.
IX of the Tenth U. S. Census, to Dr. B. E. Fernow, to Mr. Raphael G.
Zon for suggestions and for technical revision, to the _Northwestern
Lumberman_ and other trade journals, to many dealers, who have been
uniform in their courtesy, and incidentally to Mr. Morris K. Jesup,
whose magnificent collection of woods at the New York Museum of
Natural History has been available to the writer as to others. These,
with other sources of information acknowledged by the writer, and
suggested to others, are suitably arranged in the following list. Of
the 155 illustrations, 138 are original, the drawings having been
prepared under the supervision of the writer from actual specimens by
Mr. Irving T. Worthly of Cornell University and several students of
New York University, and the photographs by Mr. John Hopfengartner,
Jr., of Westchester, New York City. Other illustrations are, so far
as possible, acknowledged in place.




 TABLE OF CONTENTS.


  PART I.

  _INTRODUCTION._

                                                                  PAGE

  Section 1. Wood. Definitions. "Structure." Weights.
  Coefficients. Uses. Botanical and Common Nomenclatures.
  General Information, etc.                                          1

  PART II.

  _EXOGENOUS SERIES._

  Section 2. Definitions. Cellular Structure. Annual Rings.
  Medullary or Pith Rays. Pith Cavities. Sapwood and Heartwood.
  Cross, Radial and Tangential Distinctions. "Quarter Sawn"
  Surfaces, Common and Botanical Subdivisions, etc.                  7

  BROADLEAF OR HARDWOODS.

  Section 3. Distribution. Distinguishing Characteristics.
  General Information, etc.                                         10

  OAK (Quercus).

  Section 4. Distribution. Historical. Structural and Physical
  Properties of Wood. Commercial Divisions. Botanical
  Characteristics of Trees, etc.                                    11

  _a._ White Oak (Quercus alba)                                     13

  _b._ Cow Oak (Quercus michauxii)                                  14

  _c._ Chestnut Oak (Quercus prinus)                                15

  _d._ Post Oak (Quercus minor)                                     16

  _e._ Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa)                                 17

  _f._ White Oak (Quercus garryana)                                 18

  _g._ Red Oak (Quercus rubra)                                      19

  _h._ Pin Oak (Quercus palustris)                                  20

  _i._ Spanish Oak (Quercus digitata)                               21

  _j._ Black Oak (Quercus velutina)                                 22

  _k._ Live Oak (Quercus virens)                                    23

  _l._ California Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia)                      24

  _m._ Live Oak (Quercus chrysolepis)                               25

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