Notes on Siamese Timber: Suitable for Building Purposes
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Author(s)R. Götte
ISBN / ASIN1505268664
ISBN-139781505268669
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From the Preface.
SIAM owes its richness of woody plants to the beneficial influence of moisture and high temperature. In Europe and the Northern part of Asia the forests may be named after certain kinds of trees growing socially together in large groups or forming extensive forests for many miles. Though this fact can be met with also in Siam, the most forests consist of hundreds of species, the names of which are almost impossible to be kept in ones memory. I have counted in the museum at Bangkok not less than 600 specimens of wood, half of which differ in kind.
In the present work I am endeavoring to furnish some information regarding Siamese timber. I have quoted from and referred to the following authorities:—
W. Roxburgh : Flora Indica.
J. S. Gamble : A Manual on Indian Timbers.
Chow Phya Montri : Specimens of trees growing in the forests of the Siraoha Co. Statistic of Import and Export by H. M. Customs.
The descriptions are partly derived from the above works and partly from my own research.
To obtain the vernacular names of the different trees many of which .are different in another part of the country, I secured the aid of reliable natives, whose information is more or less regarded as authentic.
The remarks on durability were made after careful investigation. The weights and coefficients of transverse strength I found out in taking the average of several results obtained in experimenting with wood specimens.
It was not my intention to have ventured so far into the Botanical part, as this requires many years of quiet study, but merely to assist all interested in the building trade to whom a certain knowledge of the most important timbers for building purposes is essential.
SIAM owes its richness of woody plants to the beneficial influence of moisture and high temperature. In Europe and the Northern part of Asia the forests may be named after certain kinds of trees growing socially together in large groups or forming extensive forests for many miles. Though this fact can be met with also in Siam, the most forests consist of hundreds of species, the names of which are almost impossible to be kept in ones memory. I have counted in the museum at Bangkok not less than 600 specimens of wood, half of which differ in kind.
In the present work I am endeavoring to furnish some information regarding Siamese timber. I have quoted from and referred to the following authorities:—
W. Roxburgh : Flora Indica.
J. S. Gamble : A Manual on Indian Timbers.
Chow Phya Montri : Specimens of trees growing in the forests of the Siraoha Co. Statistic of Import and Export by H. M. Customs.
The descriptions are partly derived from the above works and partly from my own research.
To obtain the vernacular names of the different trees many of which .are different in another part of the country, I secured the aid of reliable natives, whose information is more or less regarded as authentic.
The remarks on durability were made after careful investigation. The weights and coefficients of transverse strength I found out in taking the average of several results obtained in experimenting with wood specimens.
It was not my intention to have ventured so far into the Botanical part, as this requires many years of quiet study, but merely to assist all interested in the building trade to whom a certain knowledge of the most important timbers for building purposes is essential.
