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IN OUR search for a less time-consuming method for measuring anatomical components and spaces within samples of wood of varying ages and heights in trees, we have found that the use of an integrating stage attached to the stage of a microscope has proved satisfactory and reliable1. Accumulating knobs are provided to measure units in hundredths of millimetres for six different readings in one traverse, and obtaining percentage values for each component is a simple operation.
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KAEISER, M., BOYCE, S. Use of an Integrating Stage for Measurement of Wood. Nature 195, 1017 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1951017a0
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