ON THE PREPARATION OF WOOD SPECIMENS FOR EXHIBITION. 317 
CONCLUSION. 
I have given my readers figures for a reason which they may not, 
I trust, consider presumptuous. The forester, and, I may add, the 
Scottish forester, is his own best teacher, and they may like to 
make experiments to determine the data I have above given in the 
case of the trees growing in their own woods. For this purpose, 
and to bring the matter nearer home to them, I give below very 
briefly some data regarding the Pinus latifolia, one of the five 
Indians pecies of Coniferze, in oxder that they may compare them 
with results they themselves may obtain from their own Pinus 
sylvestris, Weight per cubic foot, 27 lbs. Value of P or trans- 
verse strength, 906-961.1_ I would also venture to commend to 
their attention the yield tables for the Scots pine, calculated from 
the detailed measurements of 351 Scots pine woods, situated in 
Alsace, Baden, Bavaria, Prussia, and Saxony, and converted into 
English measure by Dr Schlick, C.I.E., Ph.D. These would be 
extremely interesting for the purposes of comparison with the 
results obtained in their own woods; and, with a small collection of 
wood specimens, each forester might have for himself a museum 
not less instructive, so far as it goes, than the Imperial Institute, 
which will count its treasures by thousands. 
Note.—We were told that in 1881 the number of wood specimens 
named, numbered, and described for India alone were 2530, 
belonging to 906 species and 432 genera, and the number since 
identified has doubtless largely increased the tale. 
1 See ante, note to page 314, 
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