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THE report of the Forest Products Research Board for the year 1935 has been issued by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1936). The report includes the report of the director of the Research Laboratory at Princes Risborough for the same year. The Board itself met only once during the year, when various pieces of research work under investigation were considered, as also the possibility of establishing a substation of the Laboratory in Scotland. The Board noted with appreciation that there was direct evidence of interest by industries concerned in the manufacture of both wooden and fibre-board boxes, as well as by users of such boxes, of the facilities now available in the new box-test ing laboratory. The investigations into the physical properties of timber which have a direct influence on its behaviour during seasoning and when in use have been advanced; and the results, it is considered, promise ultimately to be of material importance to architects and others engaged in industries dependent upon timber. As a result of visits to the Laboratory by many representatives of firms engaged in the manufacture of timber and timber goods, and instructors in building science or woodworking at various technical schools, some of whom have spent periods of varying lengths at the Laboratory, a new departure has been instituted. To minimize the interference with the routine work which such visits involved, a short educational course of one week's duration was given in September of which full advantage was taken.
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Forest Products Research. Nature 139, 22 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139022a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139022a0