LECTURES ON FOREST MENSURATION 



SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS BY PARAGRAPHS. 



Par. I. Definition and subdivision. 



CHAPTER I. VOLUME. 

 SECTION I. VOLUME OF TREES CUT DOWN. 



Units of volume. 



Mathematical form of trees. 



Cylinder 



Apollonian Paraboloid. 



Cone. 



Neill's paraboloid. 



Riecke's, Huber's and Smalian's fortnule. 



Hossfeld's formule. 



Simony's formule. 



Sectional measurement. 



Measuring the length of a log. 



Measuring the sectional area. 



Instruments for measuring diameters. 



Units of log measurement in the United States. 



Board -rules. 



Standard-rules. 



Cubic foot-rules. 



Equivalents. 



Xylometric method. 



Hydrostatic method 



Factors influencing the solid contents of cordwood. 



Reducing factors for cordwood. 



Local peculiarities with reference to stacked wood. 



Bark. 



SECTION II. VOLUME OF STANDING TREES. 



Methods of obtaining the volume of standing trees. 



Helps and hints to find the volume of standing trees. 



Scientific methods of ascertaining the cubic contents of 

 standing trees by mere measurement. 



Form factor method. 



Kinds of form factors mathematically. 



Kinds of common form factors in European practice. 



Means for exact mensuration of standing trees. 



Measuring the height of a standing tree. 



Factors influencing the exactness of hypsometrical ob- 

 servations. 



