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IT is so characteristic of the science of to-day to find specialists narrowing their field of research, and confining their investigations to a deep narrow channel, that no surprise can be felt that two able men should devote their energies for two years to the examination of the biology and chemistry of the wood of a single tree. It is not so easy to avoid astonishment at the results of the two years' work, however, appearing as they do in the form of a large book 1 of 238 pages of close description and argument, interspersed with long tables of figures, abounding in interesting information when properly read.
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"Das Holz der Rothbuche," by Profs. R. Hartig and R. Weber . (Berlin: Springer, 1888.)
Hartig has since proved that this explanation is the correct one (Botanische Zeitung, December 28, 1888, p. 837).
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WARD, H. Beech-Wood . Nature 39, 511–515 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039511b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/039511b0