Author: Lushington, Alfred Wyndham
Title: Nature and Uses of Madras Timbers : Arranged in Categories Containing Similar Woods, and Critically Compared ..,.
Description: Madras, S.P.C.K. Press, 1919. boards. 21x13cm, xix,358 pp. Later [late 20th century] binder's crude blind cloth-backed boards.. Corner heavily bumped. Pages browned. Just Good. ¶ Full title reads: "Nature and Uses of Madras Timbers : Arranged in Categories Containing Similar Woods, and Critically Compared with Corresponding European and Philippine Timbers". Contents: Anatomy, Chemical & Physical Properties of Wood; Seasoning of Wood; Scheme of Value Classes of the Trees in the Madras Presidency; List of European, including Imported, Timbers; Philippine Timbers; Madras Timbers; Commercial Categories of Timbers: Mostly Very Soft, Spongy, Very Light : Corks; Mostly Soft: Willows, Adlers, Hazels, Birches, White Deals; Aspens; Mostly Moderately Hard: Cherries, Red Deals; Red Cedars; Chestnuts; Oaks; Teaks; Jacks; Camphors; Ashes; Sycamores; Bast-rings; Mostly Hard: Mahoganies; Pears; Plums; Yews; Walnuts; Sals; Elms; White Cedars; Malletwoods; Mostly Very Hard: Ebonies; Lancewoods; Greenhearts; Turkey Oaks; Olives; Mostly Extremely Hard: Lignum-vitæ.

Keywords: Tropical Timbers, Indian Silviculture, Madras Timber, Tamil Nadu, India South Asia, Forestry, Wood, ,