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particular individuals and for these only for the period covered 
by the measurements. However, as most of the curve for rates 
of growth on the Gedeh lies between those for yellow poplar and 
white oak, it seems not improbable that the trees on the Gedeh 
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have rates of growth about equal to those of hardwoods in the 
central deciduous forest region of the United States. Brown 
and Matthews have previously shown that the dipterocarps. 
