[Miscellaneous papers on wood]
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1870
Place of publication: [s.l.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
Subjects: Wood; Deterioration; Preservation
Notes: Title supplied by cataloger.

Errata slip bound in at end.

Bound with: A description of the different machines used for the compression of peat / by Lord Willoughby de Eresby. London : Nuttall and Hodgson, Printers, 1839; Peat & peat charcoal. London, 18-?; A paper on the relative properties of iron, made by the use of cold and hot air blast, in the smelting furnace : read before the West-Riding Geological and Polytechnic Society, July, 1842. Leeds : Printed by G. Cullungworth, 1843.
Table of contents: title: Destruction of wood. Decay. Action of marine worms. The causes. The prevention --; title: An abstract of a paper read at the meeting of the Chemical Section of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow  -- P.M. Moir; title: Prof, J.V.Z. Blaney, of Rush Medical College, Chicago --; title: Authorities on the use of creosite oil in railway construction, European and American --; title: Letter from Mr. G.S. Page, of New York, giving results of his observations and information obtained recently in Europe --; title: Economy of creosoting in railroad construction --; title: Authorities on marine works : reports upon experiments of Mons. L. Crepin ... upon Baltic timber ... --; title: Professor Baird ... on timber used for marine purposes and its security from decay and attacks of sea worms by use of creosite oil --; title: Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting communication from the Chief of Engineers, asking an appropriation to preserve from decay the timber to be used in the dikes of the St. Clair Flats improvement --; title: Wooden pavements : importance of creosoting.