| Description | Manuscript and typescript correspondence and reports, with manuscript drawing, 28 Sep 1922-12 Apr 1927, nd, regarding the Forest Products Research Board and woods. Volume contains much correspondence between Arthur Hill and David Prain, and Ralph Syned Pearson.
The following subjects are indexed:
-- Accounts --
(Ff46-48, 52-56, 59-61) Papers regarding financial transactions, including payments from the Forest Products Research Board to Kew for reports on essential oils, turpentine oils, and resins.
-- Bagac --
(Ff62-63, 71) Letters regarding identification of Bagac planks, and typescript memorandum identifying 'bagac' as wood from one of the dipterocarpaceae. Includes typescript letter from Arthur F Fischer [Director of Forestry, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Manilla] stating that 'Bagac is a name of a town in bataan Province', and has been adopted as a trade name for two species of Dipterocarpus: apitong (Dipterocarpus granidifloras) and panau (Dipterocarpus vernicifluus), and forwarding samples of these woods to Kew.
-- Balsa --
(Ff57-58) Letters regarding 'Balsa' woods and 'Empire Grown substitutes for these'.
-- British Honduras Timber --
(F3) Letter regarding samples of British Honduras timber sent by the Forest Products Research Board to the Kew Museum, including Nargusta, Tubroos, Cottonwood, Quamwood, Bullet, Pine, Cypress, Sapodilla, Waika Chewsick, and White Maho.
-- Constitution of Board --
(F4) Letter inviting Hill to become a member of the Forest Products Research Board, Extractives Committee.
-- Dyeing wood in living trees --
(Ff7-8, 17-20, 42-45) Letters regarding dyeing the wood of living trees, and planning an experiment. Includes letter [in German] from Professor Cieslar with pencil diagram, information regarding Forestry authorities in Austria, and comments by Prain regarding dioscorea and the physiology of the leaf apex.
-- East African pencil cedar --
(Ff25-29) Letters regarding Chaston Chapman's chemical examination of pencil woods.
-- Iroko timber --
(Ff95-101) Letters regarding 'Empire-grown timbers' and their use for brake sticks by Railway Companies, including the use of iroko timber, chlorophora excelsa, by Great Western Railway.
-- Laboratory --
(Ff102-111) Papers regarding the Forest Products Research Laboratory, with printed plan of layout.
-- Minutes of meetings --
(Ff5-6, 72-77, 81-87) Papers of the Forest Products Research Board, Extractives Committee.
-- Non-nitrogenous constituents of plant tissues --
(Ff 9-16) Report by S B Schryver, titled: 'A report on the work on the non-nitrogenous complex substances of the plant tissues, carried out in the biochemical department of the Imperial College of Science and Technology'.
-- Steamed Beech Wood --
(Ff21-24, 30-41) Reports by Percy Groom, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Forest Products Research Board on 'Some Observations on the Changes induced in Beech-wood Steaming at Temperatures below 100°c' and 'the Hydroscopicity, Swelling and Shrinkage of Steamed Beech-wood'.
-- Storax --
(Ff64-66) Letter from Prain to Chipp regarding storax.
-- Tannins --
(Ff2, 78-80) Papers regarding an improved method of tannin extraction, and information provided by Dr R H Pickard.
-- Terminalia tomentosa --
(F1) Letter regarding the identification of laurel wood as terminalia tomentosa
Volume also includes (ff49-51) patent specification, 14 Feb 1922, of James Yate Johnson on 'Improvements in Softening Wood'; (ff67-70) accommodating a research worker in the Jodrell Laboratory; and (ff91-92) sending timber specimens to Kew for identification. Includes letter (ff93-94) regarding an investigation of oaks and Kew's botanical description of Quercus sessiliflora and Wuercus pedunculata, and (ff88-90) letter regarding the identification of Argentinian timbers. |
| Dipterocarpus vernicifluus |
| Dipterocarpus grandiflorus |