THE NEW EC:)REST PRODUCTS LABORATORY 



395 



esses and waste in their manufacture 

 and use, standard requirements, and 

 substitutions of wood with other mate- 

 rials. In carrying out projects along 

 these Hues, it is required that there be 

 a clear and definite object, method and 

 record, for it is the part of this organ- 

 ization to do those things which busi- 

 ness men need to have done but cannot 

 do because of pressure of the immediate 

 business of the day. Here there can 

 be experiment, study, computation, and 

 so full and exact a record that the re- 

 sults will always be of use, and avail- 

 able. 



Forest products is not a new branch 

 of the service, and a very complete or- 

 ganization and method of procedure 

 have already been worked out. The 

 scope and plan of the organization are 

 shown in the accompanying diagram. 



5. Wood Pulp, in charge of E. Suder- 

 meister. 



6. Chemistry, in charge of Ernest 

 Bateman. 



7. Engineering, in charge of Rolf 

 Thelen. 



8. Pathology. ( This is conducted in 

 connection with the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry at Washington, by C. J. 

 Humphrey.) 



9. Maintenance, a non-technical sec- 

 tion, in charge of W. K. Kempfer. 



On the staff of the laboratory are 

 four Yale men, including the assistant 

 directors ; three Cornell men, two from 

 Purdue, two from Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technolog}', two from Ohio 

 State University, and one each from 

 Stevens Institute of Technology, Uni- 

 versity of Maine, University of Michi- 

 gan, and University of California. 



PRODUCTS 

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DISTRICT 6 

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The work of the laboratory is divided 

 into nine sections : 



1. Timber Physics, in charge of H.D. 

 Tiemann. 



2. Timber Tests, in charge of J. A. 

 Newlin. 



3. Wood Preservation, in charge of 

 F. N. Bond. 



4. W^ood Distillation, in charge of 

 L. F. Hawley. 



An outline of the different sections, 

 the projects that they have in hand, 

 and the equipment with which they 

 have to work, will give a comprehensive 

 idea of the function of this laboratory. 



TIMBER PHYSICS 



It is the business of the section of 

 timber physics to study the structural 

 and physical properties of wood and 



