ANNO UNCEM ENTS 



AMERICAN WOODS 



ILLUSTRATED BY ACTUAL SPECIMENS 

 BY RoMEYN B. Hough, B. a, 



PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, LOWVILLE. N. Y. 



In this work thi-ee thin specimen-sections of each wood (made by a process original 

 with the author) are used for illustrations instead of pictures. Their superiority for 

 fhis purpose is evident at once. The sections are about 2x5 in. in size and sufficiently 

 thin to admit of examination in transmitted light, whereby characteristic structure, 

 tint, etc., are beautifully revealed. When viewed in reflected light they present the ap- 

 pearance of the wood in board or log. Transverse, radial and tangential views of the 

 grain are shown, and the three of one wood securely mounted in a bristol board frame 

 constitute a plate or illustrative page of the work. These are left separable to facilitate 

 examination, and with the text (giving information as to characters and distributions of 

 the trees, physical properties and uses of the woods, etc.,) are comprised in a clasped 

 cover resembling an ordinary book. 



The work is standard on the subject and an acquisition to any library. It is indis- 

 pensible to one specially interested in the subject, or who wishes to know the woods 

 and to distinguish between them. On account of its production its author has been 

 awarded, by the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, the special Elliott Cresson gold medal. 



The specimens and text of 2.5 species, constitute a part, or volume, of which thir- 



Oli^iTNc lluit tlic lllu.str,-itive Plates con- 

 lainini^ ihc Wood Specimens, are separable 

 In facilitalc examination. 



A Volume ot ■ 'American Woods" displayed. 



teen have been issued, two remaining parts, designed to complete the series, being now 

 in preparation, the whole covering practically all of the important woods of the United 

 States and Canada. The price (until completion of the series) is $7.50 per Part, in 

 green or brown cloth; $10.00 in green or brown half morocco. While most of our sub- 

 scribers place their orders for the series, we do supply separate volumes, each being 

 complete in itself as far as it goes. As the work is issued geographically, it is con- 

 venient to supply the woods of a particular region when patrons so prefer, and the fol- 

 lowing are important sub-divisions which suit the convenience of some of our patrons 

 having chiefly local interest: 



WOODS OF THE NORTHERN STATES AND CANADA, in four Parts. 



WOODS OF THE SOUTHERN ATLANTIC STATES, exclusive of tropical species 

 of southern Florida and southern Texas, in three Parts. 



WOODS OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE, in five Parts. 



