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INDEX.

       Books on the Manual Arts

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      As in the other volume, the credit for the successful completion of the book is to be given to my wife, Anna Gausmann Noyes, who has made the drawings and maps, corrected the text, read the proof, and carried the work thru to its final completion.

      Acknowledgments are hereby thankfully made for corrections and suggestions in the text to the following persons:

      Mr. A. D. Hopkins, of the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology, for revision of the text relating to Insect Enemies of the Forest, in Chapter VI.

      Mr. George G. Hedgcock, of the United States Bureau of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, for revision of the text relating to the fungal enemies of the forest, in Chapter VI.

      Mr. S. T. Dana and Mr. Burnett Barrows, of the United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, for revision of Chapters IV, V, VI, VII, and VIII.

      Professor Charles R. Richards, formerly Head of the Manual Training Department of Teachers College, my predecessor as lecturer of the course out of which this book has grown.

      Professor M. A. Bigelow, Head of the Department of Botany of Teachers College, for revision of Chapter I, on the Structure of Wood.

      Mr. Romeyn B. Hough, of Lowville, N. Y., author of American Woods and Handbook of the Trees of the Northern States and Canada, for suggestions in preparing the maps in Chapter III.

      The Forest Service, Washington, D. C., for photographs and maps credited to it, and for permission to reprint the key to the identification of woods which appears in Forest Service Bulletin No. 10, Timber, by Filibert Roth.

      The Division of Publications, U. S. Department of Agriculture, for permission to copy illustrations in bulletins.

      The Macmillan Company, New York, for permission to reproduce Fig. 86, Portion of the Mycelium of Dry Rot, from Timber and Some of its Diseases, by H. M. Ward.

      Mrs. Katharine Golden Bitting, of Lafayette, Indiana, for the photograph of the cross-section of a bud, Figure 5.

      Finally and not least I hereby acknowledge my obligations to the various writers and publishers whose books and articles I have freely used. As far as possible, appropriate credit is given in the paged references at the end of each chapter.

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      Apgar, A. G., Trees of the Northern United States. N. Y.: American Book Co., 224 pp. A small book dealing with the botany of trees, giving descriptions of their essential organs, and particularly valuable for the leaf key to the trees. It should be supplemented by Keeler or Hough's Handbook.

      Baterden, J. R., Timber. N. Y.: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1908, 351 pp. A description of the timbers of various countries, discussion of timber defects, timber tests, etc.

      Bitting, K. G., The Structure of Wood. Wood Craft, 5: 76, 106, 144, 172, June-Sept., '06. A very scholarly and valuable series of articles on wood structure and growth. Excellent microphotographs.

      Britton, Nathaniel Lord, North American Trees. N. Y.: Henry Holt & Co., 1908, 894 pp. A description of all the kinds of trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico, and the West Indies. The standard Botany of trees.

      Boulger, G. S., Wood. London: Edward Arnold, 369 pp. A thoro discussion of wood structure, with chapters on the recognition and classification of woods, defects, preservation, uses, tests, supplies, and sources of wood. Good illustrations.

      Bruce, E. S., Frost Checks and Wind Shakes. Forestry and Irrigation, 8: 159, April, '02. An original study of the splitting of trees by sudden frost and thaw.

      Bruncken, Ernest, North American Forests and Forestry. N. Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 265 pp. A comprehensive survey of American Forestry conditions including the forest industries, fires, taxation, and management. No illustrations.

      Busbridge, Harold, The Shrinkage and Warping of Timber. Sci. Amer. Suppl., No. 1500, Oct. 1, 1904. Good photographic illustrations.

      Comstock, J. H. and A. B., A Manual for the Study of Insects. Ithaca, N. Y.: Comstock Publishing Co., 701 pp. Valuable for reference in classifying insects injurious to wood.

      Curtis, Carleton C., Nature and Development of Plants. N. Y.: Henry Holt & Co., 1907, 471 pp. Chapter III is a very clear and excellent discussion of the structure of the stem of plants (including wood).

      Encyclopedia Brittannica, Eleventh Edition, Cambridge: At the University Press. Article: Forests and Forestry, Vol. 10, p. 645. Article: Plants, Anatomy of, Vol. 21, p. 741. Article: Timber Vol. 26, p. 978.

      Felt, E. P., The Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths. N. Y. State Museum: Bulletin 103, Entomology, 25. Valuable for colored illustrations as well as for detailed descriptions.

      Fernow, B. E., Economics of Forestry. N. Y.: T. Y. Crowell & Co. 1902, quarto 520 pp. A treatment of forests and forestry from the standpoint of economics, including a comprehensive exposition of the forester's art, with chapters on forest conditions, silviculture, forest policies, and methods of business conduct, with a bibliography.

      Fernow, B. E., Report upon the Forestry Investigation of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1887-1898. Fifty-fifth Congress, House of Representatives, Document No. 181. Quarto, 401 pp. A review of forests and forestry in the U. S., of forest policies of European nations, particularly of Germany, of the principles of silviculture, of a discussion of forest influences, and a section on timber physics.

      Harwood, W. S., The New Earth. N. Y.: The Macmillan Co., 1906. 378 pp. A recital of the triumphs of modern agriculture. Chap. X on modern forestry, describes what has been done in different states in conservative lumbering.

      Hough, Romeyn B., American Woods. Lowville, N. Y.: The author. An invaluable collection in eleven volumes (boxes) of sections of 275 species of American woods. There are three sections of each species, cross, radial, and tangential, mounted in cardboard panels. Accompanied by a list of descriptions and analytical keys.

      Hough, Romeyn B., Handbook of the Trees of the Northern States and Canada. Lowville, N. Y.: The author. 470 pp. A unique, elegant, and sumptuously illustrated book, with photographs of tree, trunk, leaf, fruit,

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