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THIS study of the commercial woods' of French Guiana is a sequel to “The Timbers of British Guiana,” which was published by the Crown Agents for the Colonies in 1914. In both books Mr. Stone adds considerably to our knowledge of the forest products of South America, as many of the timbers described are also exported from Venezuela and Brazil. In the present work, more than 200 specimens are minutely described, and trustworthy information is supplied concerning the uses, the native names and the physical properties of the woods examined. The scientific names of many of the trees still remain uncertain, in the absence of authentic specimens of foliage and flowers; nevertheless, some outstanding problems of botanical nomenclature have been solved.
Étude descriptive sur les bois utiles de la Guyane française.
Par Herbert Stone. Pp. 416 + 7 planches. (Marseille: Faculté des Sciences, Musée Colonial, 1923.) n.p.
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Étude descriptive sur les bois utiles de la Guyane française. Nature 113, 528 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113528a0
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