Excerpt from Wood: A Manual of the Natural History and Industrial Applications of the Timbers of Commerce IN an attempt, such as this, to cover a Wide ground Within a book of small compass perfect accuracy cannot be hoped for, completeness is impossible and originality is neither expected nor desirable. Rather, however, than burden the body of the book with constant acknowledgments of indebtedness, I have thought it better to add a bibliographical appendix, indicating those works from Which I have borrowed most freely. For Figs. 1, 7, 16, 17 and 29 I am indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Francis Darwin and the Syndicate of the Cambridge University Press; for Figs. 10, 18, 21 - 23 and 27 to that of Professor Marshall Ward and Messrs. Kegan pau1, trench, Triibner Co. For Figs. 12, 13, 15, 26 and 30 to that of Professor Somerville and Mr. David Douglas; and for Figs. 4, 28, 32, 37 and 45 - 66, Which are photographed from nature, to Mr. D. F. Mackenzie of Morton Hall, Midlothian whilst Figs. 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 11, 14, 24, 25 and 38 - 44 have been drawn for me by Miss Emily Carter. The plates at the end of the book are photographs from sections of common British-grown timbers magnified 35 times. They were prepared by Arthur Deane, Esq., Assistant Curator of the Warrington Museum, and are used by his kind permission and that of the English Arboricultural Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.