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Part II

, The Woods of the United States.

House Report No. 1442, 53d Cong., 2d sess. Investigations and tests of American timber. 1894, pp. 4.

War Dept. Doc. 1. Resolutions of the conventions held at Munich, Dresden, Berlin, and Vienna, for the purpose of adopting uniform methods for testing construction materials with regard to their mechanical properties. By J. Bauschinger. Translated by O.M. Carter and E.A. Gieseler. 1896, pp. 44.

War Dept. Doc. 11. On tests of construction materials. Translations from the French and from the German. By O.M. Carter and E.A. Gieseler. 1896, pp. 84.

House Doc. No. 181, 55th Cong., 3d sess. Report upon the forestry investigations of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1877-1898. By B.E. Fernow, 1899, pp. 401. Contains chapter on The work in timber physics in the Division of Forestry, by Filibert Roth, pp. 330-395.

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Cir. 7--The Government timber tests [189-], pp. 4.

Cir. 8--Strength of "boxed" or "turpentine" timber. 1892, pp. 4.

Bul. 6--Timber Physics. Pt. I. Preliminary report. 1. Need of the investigation. 2. Scope and historical development of the science of "timber physics." 3. Organization and methods of timber examinations in the Division of Forestry. By B.E. Fernow, 1892, pp. 57.

Unnumbered Cir.--Instructions for the collection of test pieces of pines for timber investigations [1893], pp. 4.

Cir. 9--Effect of turpentine gathering on the timber of longleaf pine. By B.E. Fernow [1893], p. 1.

Bul. 8--Timber physics. Pt. II. Progress report. Results of investigations on longleaf pine. 1893, pp. 92.

Bul. 10--Timber: an elementary discussion of the characteristics and properties of wood. By Filibert Roth. 1895, pp. 88.

Bul. 12--Economical designing of timber trestle bridges. By A.L. Johnson, 1896, pp. 57.

Cir. 12--Southern pine, mechanical and physical properties. 1896, pp. 12.

Cir. 15--Summary of mechanical tests on thirty-two species of American woods. 1897, pp. 12.

Cir. 18--Progress in timber physics. 1898, pp. 20.

Cir. 19--Progress in timber physics: Bald cypress (_Taxodium distichum_). By Filibert Roth, 1898, pp. 24.

Y.B. Extr. 288--Tests on the physical properties of woods. By F.E. Olmstead, 1902, pp. 533-538.

Unnumbered Cir.--Timber tests. [1903], pp. 15.

Unnumbered Cir.--Timber preservation and timber testing at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 1904, pp. 6.

Cir. 32--Progress report on the strength of structural timber. By W.K. Hatt, 1904, pp. 28.

Bul. 58--The red gum. By Alfred Chittenden. Includes a discussion of The mechanical properties of red gum wood, by W.K. Hatt. 1905, pp. 56.

Cir. 38--Instructions to engineers of timber tests. By W.K. Hatt, 1906, pp. 55. Revised edition, 1909, pp. 56.

Cir. 39--Experiments on the strength of treated timber. By W.K. Hatt, 1906, pp. 31. Revised edition, 1908.

Bul. 70--Effect of moisture upon the strength and stiffness of wood. By H.D. Tiemann, 1906, pp. 144.

Cir. 46--Holding force of railroad spikes in wooden ties. By W.K. Hatt, 1906, pp. 7.

Cir. 47--Strength of packing boxes of various woods. By W.K. Hatt, 1906, pp. 7.

Cir. 108--The strength of wood as influenced by moisture. By H.D. Tiemann, 1907, pp. 42.

Cir. 115--Second progress report on the strength of structural timber. By W.K. Hatt, 1907, pp. 39.

Cir. 142--Tests of vehicle and implement woods. By H.B. Holroyd and H.S. Betts, 1908, pp. 29.

Cir. 146--Experiments with railway cross-ties. By H.B. Eastman, 1908, pp. 32.

Cir. 179--Utilization of California eucalypts. By H.S. Betts and C. Stowell Smith, 1910, pp. 30.

Bul. 75--California tanbark oak.