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a scientific means of preserving such a valuable wood could soon be 

 found. Even when it is exposed to wet and dry above ground, it is 



Photograph by J. H. Lace, CLE. 

 Eng {Dipthrocarpcs sp.), Lower Burma. 



quite durable ; for under these conditions work under observation during 

 twelve years gives quite satisfactory results. This is one of the timbers 



