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...fund. Timber “is also a good diversifier since its returns will not correlate closely with returns from equity markets,” Meyer added at the time. The majority of the Kaingaroa forest, located in the Central North Island of New Zealand, is made up of radiata pine—generally used for building material. It is considered one of the “premier timber estates in the world,” according to a statement from the fund, pointing to the forest’s impressive growth rate, topography, and proximity to timber mills...
...four years before he saw England again. Besides his job as ship's doctor he had the un-naval post of naturalist, and intended to keep a weather eye out for Mollusca, Acalephae, Cirripedia, epizoa, Radiata and such. He rigged up a home-made tow-net to snare his specimens, soon ran afoul of the navigation officers, who complained that the net slowed the ship's way, took to dumping his catch overboard when his back was turned. As the long voyage wore on, Huxley found that such setbacks, like the difficulty of peering through his microscope...