-- Damage caused to Forests --
Different Alterations -- #The Preservation of Timber# -- Generalities --
Causes and Progress of Deterioration -- History of Different Proposed
Processes -- Dessication -- Superficial Carbonisation of Timber --
Processes by Immersion -- Generalities as to Antiseptics Employed --
Injection Processes in Closed Vessels -- The Boucherie System, Based
upon the Displacement of the Sap -- Processes for Making Timber
Uninflammable -- #Applications of Timber# -- Generalities -- Working
Timber -- Paving -- Timber for Mines -- Railway Traverses -- Accessory
Products -- Gums -- Works of M. Fremy -- Resins -- Barks -- Tan --
Application of Cork -- The Application of Wood to Art and Dyeing --
Different Applications of Wood -- Hard Wood -- Distillation of Wood --
Pyroligneous Acid -- Oil of Wood -- Distillation of Resins -- Index.

#THE UTILISATION OF WOOD WASTE.# Translated from the German of Ernst
HUBBARD. Crown 8vo. 192 pp. Fifty Illustrations. Price 5s. net. (Post
free, 5s. 4d. home; 5s. 6d. abroad.)

#Contents.#

General Remarks on the Utilisation of Sawdust -- Employment of Sawdust
as Fuel, with and without Simultaneous Recovery of Charcoal and the
Products of Distillation -- Manufacture of Oxalic Acid from Sawdust --
Process with Soda Lye; Thorn's Process; Bohlig's Process --
Manufacture of Spirit (Ethyl Alcohol) from Wood Waste -- Patent Dyes
(Organic Sulphides, Sulphur Dyes, or Mercapto Dyes) -- Artificial Wood
and Plastic Compositions from Sawdust -- Production of Artificial Wood
Compositions for Moulded Decorations -- Employment of Sawdust for
Blasting Powders and Gunpowders -- Employment of Sawdust for
Briquettes -- Employment of Sawdust in the Ceramic Industry and as an
Addition to Mortar -- Manufacture of Paper Pulp from Wood -- Casks --
Various Applications of Sawdust and Wood Refuse -- Calcium Carbide --
Manure -- Wood Mosaic Plaques -- Bottle Stoppers -- Parquetry --
Fire-lighters -- Carborundum -- The Production of Wood Wool -- Bark --
Index.

#BUILDING AND ARCHITECTURE.# (p. c30)

#THE PREVENTION OF DAMPNESS IN BUILDINGS#; with Remarks on the Causes,
Nature and Effects of Saline, Efflorescences and Dry-rot, for
Architects, Builders, Overseers, Plasterers Painters and House Owners.
By Adolf Wilhelm KEIM. Translated from the German of the second
revised Edition by M. J. SALTER, F.I.C. F.C.S. Eight Coloured Plates
and Thirteen Illustrations