coxte>:ts. 



CHAPTER PAGE 



(jfeneral Bibliography 4 



I The Structure of Wood 9 



II Properties of Wood -tl 



III The Principal Species of American Woods 57 



IV The Distribution and Composition of the jSTorth American 



Forests 197 



V The Forest Organism 211 



VI l^Atinsl Enemies of the Forest 339 



VII The Exhaustion of the Forest 251 



VIII The Use of the Forest 371 



Appendix 389 



Index 304 



