Download or read book Tables of the Results of a Series of Experiments on the Strength of British Colonial and Other Woods Exhibited at the International Exhibition 1862 written by F. Fowke and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ...Chief Commissioner from that colony to the Exhibition, and the collector and exhibitor of the specimens of wood from which those experimented upon were taken; and, as the information which it affords gives additional value to any experiments on the woods of that colony, it is here given intact. Catalogue of Specimens of Woods indigenous to the Southebn Disteicts, collected by Mr. W. Mcaethttb, and exhibited by the Commissioners; with remarks descriptive of the nature of the Trees, and the qualities of their "Wood, so far as these could be ascertained. A short description of the general features of the kind of woodland from which have been collected the majority of the specimens of woods herein-after described in detail, with a few observations upon the general character of the latter, would seem to be a desirable introduction to the catalogue They will be useful in rendering the subject more intelligible to all who have not had the opportunity of informing themselves by personal observation. For greater convenience the different descriptions of natural woodlands will be included under three classes; and the letter denoting its class will be inserted opposite to each specimen of wood. Class A.--Forest more or less open j generally composed of trees with little or no underwood; their trunks more or less naked and lofty, height being a more conspicuous feature than diameter their heads small in proportion to the trunks, divided into few secondary or tertiary ramifications, and thinly clothed with persistent, drv, dullcoloured, thick, leathery leaves, abounding in essential oils, and in their decomposition adding little to tho vegetable matter in the soil. The different species of Eucalyptus and Angophora, with Melaleuca, ...