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A REPORT of the committee for the investigation £\. of the systematic anatomy of timber-producing trees (Prof. H. S. Holden, chairman; Dr. Helen Bancroft, secretary; Prof. J. H. Priestley) was presented to Section K (Botany) at the recent meeting at Norwich of the British Association. Four papers dealing with the Monotoideae and with British elms have been published, whilst three others on the Monotoideae, Marquesia acuminata from Northern Rhodesia, and the Dipterocarps in Africa will appear shortly. A brief summary of the report shows the value of the investigation work being carried out from both the scientific and economic points of view. It is stated that continued work on the Monotoidese supports the view, expressed in last year's report, that the members of the group are closely related to one another and, as a whole, to the Dipterocarpaceae rather than to the Tiliaceae; and that the timbers can be of little value economically outside the areas where they occur naturally.
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Systematic Anatomy of Timber-Producing Trees. Nature 137, 198 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137198b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137198b0