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In the British Museum of Natural History there is a section taken at about 18 feet from the ground, of a tree felled in 1892 at Fresno. The annual rings show that it was 1335 years old.

In Garden and Forest, v. 541–547, there is an account, with two excellent photographs, of the felling of a large Sequoia from which a specimen was taken for the Jesup Timber Collection in the Natural History Museum at New York. One of the pictures shows the tree in the act of falling; the other shows the stump, which at ground level was go feet in girth, and on its bark and outer edge fifty men are standing, and there is room for a hundred more. Mr. Moore, the Superintendent of the King's River Lumber Company, on whose land the tree was cut, estimated its contents at 400,000 feet, board measure, equal to about 40,000 cubic feet. (H.J.E.)