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The woods of Tasmania are for the most part represented by fine 
nme in the Timber Museum of the Royal Gardens (Museum 
No.I 
Mr. A. Ransome to AGENT-GENERAL FOR TASMANIA. 
Sin, Chelsea, November 23rd, 1888. 
THANK you for your letter of the lst instant, giving me a list 
of the Tasmanian woods forwarded to Stanley Wor ks for trial some 
g e 
it e een it was impossible to prepare my report sooner, as it 
was necessary, in order that the trials might have any practical value, 
that E Aud should be in a properly workable idiom. and although 
in order to save time ad the samples seasoned by the cool-air 
rying process, it was several months before they were fit 
experiment. 
particularly the She-Oak, Silver Wattle, Figured Myrtle, Curly Gum, 
and Musk, as it is evident from the polished samples of these woods 
at your office that they would be valuable in the English market for 
cabinet work. 
‘There can be no doubt, however, that your polished samples of 
Blackwood, Huon Pine, and Myrtle have been specially selected from 
wo 
Bi Rcgis of their various kinds, it is certain that anyone ordering 
woods in quantity from your polished samples would be greatly 
i with the result. 
I am, &c., 
(Signed) A. RANSOME. 
Report on certain TASMAN MANIAN Woops furnished by the Agent- 
Ge o aX for Tasmania for trial by Mr. A. Ransome, Stanley Works, 
Che 
Tibe Fetal ly tested the various samples of Tasmanian timbers 
furnished to me ae that purpose, I have pleasure in giving below the 
results of these trials. 
The ‘woods iret for experiment included pieces of the following 
tim 
kh Stringy bark MEME obliqua). 
2. Stringy gu 
3. Red myrtle - (Fagus Mog eet ai 
4, White myrtle (Do. 
5. Pine (Daerydium Franklinii P. 
6. Huon pine ( Do. Do. 
7. Blackwood oe melanoxylon). 
^: due t» Do. 
lbs: Do. Bi 
10. oes yi teem moschata). 
All these samples without exception were so wet and unseasoned that 
it was necessary to dry them all artificially for some months before they 
were in a workable condition. This "aa pid which explains the delay 
in Ronny my ires has had the effect of rendering the woods about 
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