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This book has been prepared as a companion volume to the au- 

 thor's Hanchrorli in Wood.^ It is an attempt to collect and arrange 

 in available form useful information, now widely scattered, about 

 our common woods, their sources, growth, properties and uses. 



As in the other volume, the credit for the successful completion 

 of the book is to be given to my wife, Anna Gausmann Noyes, who 

 has made the drawings and maps, corrected the text, read the proof, 

 and carried the work thru to its final completion. 



Acknowledgments are hereby thankfully made for corrections and 

 suggestions in the text to the following persons : 



Mr. A. D. Hopkins, of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, Bureau of Entomology, for revision of the text relating to 

 Insect Enemies of the Forest, in Chapter VI. 



Mr. George G. Hedgcock, of the United States Bureau of Agri- 

 culture, Bureau of Plant Industry, for revision of tlie text relating 

 to the fungal enemies of the forest, in Chapter VI. 



Mr. S. T. Dana and Mr. Burnett Barrows, of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, for revision of Chapters 

 IV, V, VI, VII, and VIII. 



Professor Charles Pi. Eichards, formerly Head of the Manual 

 Training Department of Teacliers College, my predecessor as lec- 

 turer of tlie course out of which this book has grown. 



Professor M. A. Bigelow, Head of the Department of Botany of 

 Teachers College, for revision of Chapter I, on the Structure of Wood. 



Mr. Eomeyn B. Hough, of Lowville, N. Y., author of American 

 Woods and Eandhooh of the Trees of the Nortlieni States and Can- 

 ada, for suggestions in preparing the maps in Chapter III. 



The Forest Service, Washington, D. C, for photographs and 

 maps credited to it, and for permission to reprint the key to the 

 identification of woods which appears in Forest Service Bulletin ISTo. 

 10, Timher, by Filibert Eoth. 



The Division of Publications, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 for permission to copy illustrations in bulletins. 



'William Xoyes, Handnorlc in Woorl, Peoria, 111. The ilanvial Arts Press, 

 231 pp., $2. 



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