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Hardwood Identification (Division of Chemical and Wood Technology technical paper)

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The book is meant to be used as a companion to a key for hardwood identification by microscopic means. Initially this key utilised punched cards, but it has (of course) been computerised. Note that the actual key is not included here. The present work is intended to describe and illustrate the 91 (99) wood anatomical characters used in this key. Illustrations are 66 half-tone plates of four (sometimes two or three) 6x9cm black&white photomicrographs: note that the plates belonging to fig 62 & 63 were inadvertently interchanged. In addition there is one (historical) plate illustrating the author in his lab.

Since the characters used are fairly orthodox this book can also be used as a illustrated list of wood anatomical characters, as an alternative or a supplement to the IAWA-list (issued from Leiden: eevn@euronet.nl). Since this CSIRO key is published in Australia, the woods illustrated tend to be from Australia or its adjacent areas.