Commercial Timbers of the United States

Abstract

A MORE suitable title for this book than that selected by the authors would have been “A Treatise on Wood Growth and Structure”. The reader will find that out of 554 pages only 154 can be said to be informative on the subject of commercial timbers of the United States: these 154 pages include seventy-five kinds of woods, on which the information is limited and generally highly technical. The uses of the timbers named are drawn only from information within the United States, and a glance at the bibliography displays perhaps a somewhat insufficient research. Commercial Timbers of the United States Their Structure, Identification, Properties and Uses. Published formerly under the title “Identification of the Commercial Timbers of the United States”. By Prof. H. P. Brown and Prof. A. J. Panshin. (American Forestry Series.) Pp. xxi+554. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1940.) 35s.