Brick dust, tar, &c., to preserve piles, 228
Brimstone, bees-wax, &c., to preserve wood, 156
Browne’s (Sir S.), experiments with piles, 229
Burnett’s (Sir F.), patent zinc process, 140, 224, 254, 255, 286
Burt’s experience of creosoted sleepers, 137
Cadet de Gassicourt’s process for dry rot, 144
Canadian white spruce deals liable to warp, 65
” yellow wood liable to rot in damp situations, 36, 43
Carbolic acid, for wood beetles, 257, 276
Cashiobury, carvings at, destroyed by beetle, 269
Chapman (W.), on dry rot, 25, 73, 112, 119, 122, 165, 167
Charcoal--_see_ Oils, Whale, and Fish--to preserve wood, 121
Chassloup Lambat’s suggestion to prevent rot, 163
Château of the Roques d’Oudres, girders at, 174
” of Holy Trinity, Cork, rot in vaults, 39
” of Old St. Pancras, London, rot in vaults, 40
Cleghorn (Dr.), on creosoted sleepers, 47, 136, 142
Commission, report of, on carvings, 266, 274
Corrosive sublimate, 123, 226, 264, 265, 285, 286
” and other substances, 130, 155, 263, 265, 266, 279, 285
Covent Garden Theatre, dry rot in bond, 175
Creosote (Bethell’s patent), 118, 130, 133, 142, 165, 230, 236, 255, 257, 285, 287
Davy (Sir H.), on corrosive sublimate, 127, 263
Deane’s (Sir T.), account of dry rot case, 39
Donaldson’s (Prof. T. L.) account of dry rot case, 42
” proceeds according to temperature 29, 187
” _in ground_, under house at Hampstead, 20
” _under foundations_, Norfolk House, 176
” _in vaults_, Old St. Pancras Church, 40
” _on vaults_, Holy Trinity Church, Cork, 39
” ” _basement floor_ of house, Greenwich, Frontispiece
” ” _ground floor_ of houses, 43, 177, 185, 186, 187
” ” _first floor_ of house, No. 29, Mincing Lane, 187
” ” _second floor_ of house, No. 79, Gracechurch Street, 187
” _on floor_ of house, No. 106, Fenchurch Street, London, 186
” _in wood bond_, Covent Garden theatre, 175
” ” _wood lining_ to walls--basement, 125
” ” floor of house in the Temple, London, 124
” ” _girder_ of house (Earl of Mansfield’s), 32
” ” _partition_, No. 16, Mark Lane, London, 188
” ” _curb of dome_, St. Mark’s, Venice, 176
” ” Society of Arts building, Adelphi, 42
” _in ships_, 23, 26, 73, 93, 112, 114, 172
” good, cheap, and easy remedy required, 291
Duke of Devonshire’s house, dry rot at, 40
Earl Brownlow’s house, beetles in carvings at, 268
