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Xylotomy is the preparation of small slivers of wood for examination under a microscope, often using a microtome. It is useful for providing forensic evidence in some criminal cases where finding a fragment of wood on an individual and matching it to a weapon used in a crime would be helpful.〔() World of Forensic Science article〕〔() Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection〕 One xylotomist, Arthur Koehler, was able to provide crucial evidence by linking a piece of pine from a ladder used in a kidnapping to one particular factory whose machinery was defective, and from there to one particular lumberyard.〔() Nightmare remembered〕 Koehler searched for eighteen months for the yard, and presented his evidence dramatically in court by presenting the court with a chalk rubbing of the samples, which he made there and then, demonstrating that they were identical.〔() New Jersey v. Hauptmann (Cont'd)〕 He also matched other pieces of the ladder to a chisel used to create the joists, missing from the defendant's tool chest, and to a missing plank from the suspect's attic floor. It may also be useful in forestry studies. Identifying the species of a piece of wood is not always easy, in which case a xylotheque may provide samples with which the xylotomist can compare his own. Xylotomy may be carried out by a forensic biologist. People who specialize in xylotomy are difficult to obtain. The public have been known to confuse it with someone who plays the xylophone〔() THE XYLOTOMIST, Post-Standard, The Thursday, September 22, 1910〕 and they do not tend to take much interest in the subject.〔() Washington Post, The Wednesday, August 24, 1910〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Xylotomy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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