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_On basement floor joist in house, at Greenwich, near London Feb 1875._
_Crumbled into fine red powder, with slight rubbing._
_Portion of fungus near the edge was torn away on removal of floor boards, the undersides of which were covered with fungus, as well as the sides of nearest joist 10ins. distant._
_Portion of fungus near the edge was torn away on removal of joist. Fungus covered top and sides of sleeper joist._
_Colours of fungi. White, yellow, green, purple, and rusty red._]
A TREATISE ON THE ORIGIN, PROGRESS, PREVENTION, AND CURE OF DRY ROT IN TIMBER.
WITH REMARKS ON THE MEANS OF PRESERVING WOOD FROM DESTRUCTION BY SEA WORMS, BEETLES, ANTS, ETC.
BY THOMAS ALLEN BRITTON, LATE SURVEYOR TO THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS, AND SILVER MEDALLIST OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS IN 1854, 1856, AND 1870.
LONDON: E. & F. N. SPON, 48, CHARING CROSS. NEW YORK: 446, BROOME STREET. 1875.
THIS VOLUME IS Dedicated to GEORGE VULLIAMY, ESQ., VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS; AND ARCHITECT OF THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS; AS A SLIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS COUNSEL, SYMPATHY, AND FRIENDSHIP, DURING MANY YEARS.
In preparing this treatise on Dry Rot, the author has endeavoured to place in as condensed a form as was consistent with the nature of the subject, the knowledge and information dispersed through a numerous collection of writers who have treated thereon; he has also availed himself of the assistance of professional friends, builders, timber-merchants, foremen and carpenters; and, by so doing, has been enabled to record several instances of the progress and cure of dry rot. He has consulted many valuable papers published during the last thirty years, in the various professional journals in England, America, France, and Germany, upon this important subject, and has also obtained much useful information from the works of Evelyn, Nicholson, Tredgold by Hurst, Papworth, Burnell, Blenkarn, and other English writers upon timber; Silloway, of North America; Porcher, of South America; Du Hamel, De Moray, and De Lapparent, of France; and several writers whose works will be referred to.