Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 28801 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 210.00 CUPRESSACEAE Juniperus virginiana | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | United States | TDWG Region | United States | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Massachussetts, Northern America, USA, Northeastern USA | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Prof CS Sargent | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1878 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Has been in use as a railway sleeper in Massachussetts for 42 years. Red Cedar, one of the most durable woods equalling Robinia in its powers of lasting when exposed to the air or buried in the ground. The enclosed piece has been in constan, t use as a railway sleeper in Massachussetts from Nov. 1834 to April 1876. | ||||