Abstract
This book deals with the anatomy, physical and mechanical properties, anomalies, defects, and decay of wood. Although intended for “advanced students,” it abounds in elementary errors as regards facts, botanical and mechanical. For example, the account of the production of wood by cambium is truly fantastic, while the implication is made that when dead wood is absorbing water and swelling, the cells of the medullary rays exert great pressure by reason of their turgidity. But quite inexcusable are misquotations of various scientific workers, including R. Hartig and Mathieu (who is made responsible for the statement that heartwood and sapwood are synonymous “expressions”).
A Text-book of Wood.
By Herbert Stone. Pp. vii + 240 + 41 Plates, (London: Rider and Son, Ltd., 1921.) 21s. net.
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A Text-book of Wood . Nature 110, 73–74 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110073a0
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