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CONSIDERING the importance of wood and kits by-products in the necessities of life, it is strange how comparatively little systematic action has been taken in England to study the constitution of wood-substance and the structure and properties of the different timbers in relation to their uses. Much of our knowledge, whether it be of the chemistry of wood or its mechanical and physical behaviour, is empirical.
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Co-operation in Forestry and Forest Products Research. Nature 119, 881–882 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119881a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119881a0