Wegel, R. L.

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R.L. Wegel was an employee of Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City. He undertook a study of tree ring measurements in order to determine the date of construction of his home in Peekskill, N.Y. He employed the methods used by Andrew Ellicott Douglass in dating aboriginal ruins in the American southwest.

From the description of R.L. Wegel papers 1934-1961. (New York Botanical Garden). WorldCat record id: 44261988

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associatedWith Tryon, Henry H. (Henry Harrington), 1888- person
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Dendrochronology
Tree-rings
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Active 1934

Active 1961

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