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EXAMINATION of the results of standard mechanical tests on more than three hundred species of timber reveals a striking difference in the properties of timbers from tropical and north temperate regions respectively. The results were taken from tests carried out in the Timber Mechanics Section of this Laboratory, together with those published by the Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, India1, and the United States Forest Products Laboratories, Madison2.
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CLARKE, S. A Comparison of Certain Properties of Timbers from Tropical and North Temperate Regions. Nature 139, 511 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139511a0
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