A treatise on the origin, progress, prevention, and cure of dry rot in timber

33 chapters

1. 1A TREATISE ON DRY ROT IN TIMBER.
2. 2CHAPTER I. ON THE NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF TIMBER.
3. 3CHAPTER II. ON THE GRADUAL RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF DRY ROT.
4. 4CHAPTER III. FELLING TIMBER.
5. 5CHAPTER IV. ON SEASONING TIMBER BY NATURAL METHODS, VIZ. HOT AND COLD AIR; FRESH AND SALT WATER; VAPOUR; SMOKE; STEAM; BOILING; CHARRING AND SCORCHING, ETC.
6. 6WATER SEASONING.
7. 7SEASONING BY STEAMING AND BOILING, ETC.
8. 8SEASONING BY SMOKE DRYING.
9. 9STOVE DRYING.
10. 10SEASONING BY SCORCHING AND CHARRING.
11. 11SEASONING BY EXTRACTION OF SAP.
12. 12“‘SEASONING’ BY BRIBES.”
13. 13CHAPTER V. ON SEASONING TIMBER BY PATENT PROCESSES, ETC.
14. 14CHAPTER VI. ON THE MEANS OF PREVENTING DRY ROT IN MODERN HOUSES; AND THE CAUSES OF THEIR DECAY.
15. 15CHAPTER VII. ON THE PRESERVATION OF WOODEN BRIDGES, JETTIES, PILES, HARBOUR WORKS, ETC., FROM THE RAVAGES OF THE TEREDO NAVALIS AND OTHER SEA-WORMS.
16. 16WOODS WHICH RESIST SEA WORMS.
17. 17CHAPTER VIII. ON THE DESTRUCTION OF WOODWORK IN HOT CLIMATES BY THE TERMITE OR WHITE ANT, WOOD-CUTTER, CARPENTER BEE, c., AND THE MEANS OF PREVENTING THE SAME.
18. 18ANT-RESISTING WOODS.

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