PART III. PUBLICATIONS OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ON THE MECHANICAL

PROPERTIES OF WOOD, AND TIMBER TESTING

MISCELLANEOUS

House Misc. Doc. 42, pt. 9, 47th Cong., 2d sess., 1884. (Vol. IX, Tenth Census report.) Report on the forests of North America (exclusive of Mexico). Part II, The Woods of the United States.

House Report No. 1442, 53d Cong., 2d sess. Investigations and tests of American timber. 1894, pp. 4.

War Dept. Doc. 1. Resolutions of the conventions held at Munich, Dresden, Berlin, and Vienna, for the purpose of adopting uniform methods for testing construction materials with regard to their mechanical properties. By J. Bauschinger. Translated by O.M. Carter and E.A. Gieseler. 1896, pp. 44.

War Dept. Doc. 11. On tests of construction materials. Translations from the French and from the German. By O.M. Carter and E.A. Gieseler. 1896, pp. 84.

House Doc. No. 181, 55th Cong., 3d sess. Report upon the forestry investigations of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1877-1898. By B.E. Fernow, 1899, pp. 401. Contains chapter on The work in timber physics in the Division of Forestry, by Filibert Roth, pp. 330-395.

FOREST SERVICE

Cir. 7--The Government timber tests [189-], pp. 4.

Cir. 8--Strength of "boxed" or "turpentine" timber. 1892, pp. 4.

Bul. 6--Timber Physics. Pt. I. Preliminary report. 1. Need of the investigation. 2. Scope and historical development of the science of "timber physics." 3. Organization and methods of timber examinations in the Division of Forestry. By B.E. Fernow, 1892, pp. 57.

Unnumbered Cir.--Instructions for the collection of test pieces of pines for timber investigations [1893], pp. 4.

Cir. 9--Effect of turpentine gathering on the timber of longleaf pine. By B.E. Fernow [1893], p. 1.

Bul. 8--Timber physics. Pt. II. Progress report. Results of investigations on longleaf pine. 1893, pp. 92.

Bul. 10--Timber: an elementary discussion of the characteristics and properties of wood. By Filibert Roth. 1895, pp. 88.

Bul. 12--Economical designing of timber trestle bridges. By A.L. Johnson, 1896, pp. 57.

Cir. 12--Southern pine, mechanical and physical properties. 1896, pp. 12.

Cir. 15--Summary of mechanical tests on thirty-two species of American woods. 1897, pp. 12.

Cir. 18--Progress in timber physics. 1898, pp. 20.

Cir. 19--Progress in timber physics: Bald cypress (_Taxodium distichum_). By Filibert Roth, 1898, pp. 24.

Y.B. Extr. 288--Tests on the physical properties of woods. By F.E. Olmstead, 1902, pp. 533-538.

Unnumbered Cir.--Timber tests. [1903], pp. 15.

Unnumbered Cir.--Timber preservation and timber testing at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 1904, pp. 6.

Cir. 32--Progress report on the strength of structural timber. By W.K. Hatt, 1904, pp. 28.

Bul. 58--The red gum. By Alfred Chittenden. Includes a discussion of The mechanical properties of red gum wood, by W.K. Hatt. 1905, pp. 56.

Cir. 38--Instructions to engineers of timber tests. By W.K. Hatt, 1906, pp. 55. Revised edition, 1909, pp. 56.

Cir. 39--Experiments on the strength of treated timber. By W.K. Hatt, 1906, pp. 31. Revised edition, 1908.

Bul. 70--Effect of moisture upon the strength and stiffness of wood. By H.D. Tiemann, 1906, pp. 144.

Cir. 46--Holding force of railroad spikes in wooden ties. By W.K. Hatt, 1906, pp. 7.

Cir. 47--Strength of packing boxes of various woods. By W.K. Hatt, 1906, pp. 7.

Cir. 108--The strength of wood as influenced by moisture. By H.D. Tiemann, 1907, pp. 42.

Cir. 115--Second progress report on the strength of structural timber. By W.K. Hatt, 1907, pp. 39.

Cir. 142--Tests of vehicle and implement woods. By H.B. Holroyd and H.S. Betts, 1908, pp. 29.

Cir. 146--Experiments with railway cross-ties. By H.B. Eastman, 1908, pp. 32.

Cir. 179--Utilization of California eucalypts. By H.S. Betts and C. Stowell Smith, 1910, pp. 30.

Bul. 75--California tanbark oak. Part II, Utilization of the wood of tanbark oak, by H.S. Betts, 1911, pp. 24-32.

Bul. 88--Properties and uses of Douglas fir. By McGarvey Cline and J.B. Knapp, 1911, pp. 75.

Cir. 189--Strength values for structural timbers. By McGarvey Cline, 1912, pp. 8.

Cir. 193--Mechanical properties of redwood. By A.L. Heim, 1912, pp. 32.

Bul. 108--Tests of structural timbers. By McGarvey Cline and A.L. Heim, 1912, pp. 1231.

Bul. 112--Fire-killed Douglas fir: a study of its rate of deterioration, usability, and strength. By J.B. Knapp, 1912, pp. 18.

Bul. 115--Mechanical properties of western hemlock. By O.P.M. Goss, 1913, pp. 45.

Bul. 122--Mechanical properties of western larch. By O.P.M. Goss, 1913, pp. 45.

Cir. 213--Mechanical properties of woods grown in the United States. 1913, pp. 4.

Cir. 214--Tests of packing boxes of various forms. By John A. Newlin, 1913, pp. 23.

Review Forest Service Investigations. 1913. [Outline of investigations.] Vol. I, pp. 17-21. A microscopic study of the mechanical failure of wood, by Warren D. Brush. Vol. II, pp. 33-38.

Bul. 67, U.S.D.A.--Tests of Rocky Mountain woods for telephone poles. By Norman deW. Betts and A.L. Heim, 1914, pp. 28.

Bul. 77, U.S.D.A.--Rocky Mountain mine timbers. By Norman deW. Betts, 1914, pp. 34.

Bul. 86, U.S.D.A.--Tests of wooden barrels. By J.A. Newlin, 1914, pp. 12.

REPORTS OF TESTS ON THE STRENGTH OF STRUCTURAL MATERIAL, MADE AT THE WATERTOWN ARSENAL, MASS.

House Ex. Doc. No. 12, 47th Cong., 1st sess., 1882. Strength of wood grown on the Pacific slope, pp. 19-93.

Senate Ex. Doc. No. 1, 47th Cong., 2d sess., 1883. Resistance of white and yellow pines to forces of compression in the direction of the fibers, as used for columns, or posts, pp. 239-395.

Senate Ex. Doc. No. 5, 48th Cong., 1st sess., 1884. Tests of California laurel wood by compression, indentation, shearing, transverse tension, pp. 223-236. Tests of North American woods (under supervision of Prof. C.S. Sargent in charge of the forestry division of the Tenth Census), with 16 photographs of fractures of American woods, pp. 237-347.

Senate Ex. Doc. No. 35, 49th Cong., 1st sess., 1885. Adhesion of nails, spikes, and screws in various woods. Experiments on the resistance of cut nails, wire nails (steel), wood screws, lag screws in white pine, yellow pine, chestnut, white oak, and laurel, pp. 448-471.

House Ex. Doc. No. 14, 51st Cong., 1st sess., 1890. Adhesion of spikes and bolts in railroad ties, pp. 595-617.

House Ex. Doc. No. 161, 52d Cong., 1st sess., 1892. Adhesion of nails in wood, pp. 744-745.

House Ex. Doc. No. 92, 53d Cong., 3d sess., 1895. Woods--compression tests (endwise compression), pp. 471-476.

House Doc. No. 54, 54th Cong., 1st sess., 1896. Compression tests on Douglas fir wood, pp. 536-563. Expansion and contraction of oak and pine wood, pp. 567-574.

House Doc. No. 164, 55th Cong., 2d sess., 1898. Compression tests of timber posts, pp. 405-411. New posts of yellow pine and spruce, pp. 413-450; Old yellow pine posts from Boston Fire Brick Co. building, No. 394 Federal St., Boston, Mass., pp. 451-473.

House Doc. No. 143, 55th Cong., 3d sess., 1899. Fire-proofed wood (endwise and transverse tests), pp. 676-681.

House Doc. No. 190, 56th Cong., 2d sess., 1901. Cypress wood for United States Engineer Corps; compression and transverse tests, pp. 1121-1126. Old white pine and red oak from roof trusses of Old South Church, Boston, Mass., pp. 1127-1130. Compression of rubber, balata, and wood buffers, pp. 1149-1158.

House Doc. No. 335, 57th Cong., 2d sess., 1903. Douglas fir and white oak woods. Transverse and shearing tests; also observations on heat conductivity of sticks over wood fires and a stick exposed to low temperature. Expansion crosswise the grain of wood after submersion, pp. 519-561. Adhesion of lag screws and bolts in wood, pp. 563-578.