Just saw this site, and would encourage y’all to check it out and bookmark. It’s wood specimen scans from Romeyn B. Hough’s “The American Woods” published 1888-1910. Contains scans of 275 different woods, 3 views each (transverse, radial, tangential), in 11 volumes. Easy to use index, 3 different zoom levels. Amazing, really.
http://inky.library.yale.edu/hough/index.html
Thanks go to Scott at WWA for posting this link there.
forestgirl — you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can’t take the forest out of the girl 😉
Edited 5/3/2003 12:06:44 AM ET by forestgirl
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Wow....Thanks Jamie. Thanks Scott.
Since you're working on your computer skills, I have to ask, do you know how to search a web page? If not, here ya go: Go to that site and click on "Contents". You'll be confronted with a non-alphabetical list of all those 275 woods! Eeek! So, how do you find "Cypress" or "Madrone" (not to mention all 4 cypresses!).
Use the basic Windows search short-cut: Control+f a little box pops up for you to enter the word you want to search for, and off you go. The box gives you some options -- check 'em out.
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Edited 5/5/2003 10:57:37 PM ET by forestgirl
Jon, are you familiar with these volumes in their bound form? Are you able to tell from looking at the "contents" on-line page what the organization was? I feel certain he had the 11 different volumes organized by some category, but am clueless as to what it was, since my scientific knowledge of trees is non-existant.
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
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