(1) Timber: (2) Timber Drying and the Behaviour of Seasoned Timber in Use (3) Wood Preservation (4) Timber Products and Industries

Abstract

THERE have recently appeared four manuals, two published in Great Britain and the other two in the United States, which deal with wood and its technical properties, which with the exception of timber mechanics, cover most of the available knowledge on the subject.

(1) Timber:

its Structure and Properties. By H. E. Desch. Pp. xxi + 169 + 27 plates. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1938.) 12s. 6d. net.

(2) Timber Drying and the Behaviour of Seasoned Timber in Use

By R. G. Bateson. Pp. xiv + 138 + 7 plates. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, Ltd., 1938.) 10s. 6d. net.

(3) Wood Preservation

By George M. Hunt Prof. George A. Garratt. Pp. ix + 457. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1938.) 30s.

(4) Timber Products and Industries:

the Harvesting, Conversion and Marketing of Materials other than Lumber, including the Principal Derivatives and Extractives. By Prof. Nelson Courtlandt Brown. Pp. xviii + 316. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. ; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1937.) 17s. 6d. net.