Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Preservation of Wood: A Descriptive Treatise on the Processes and on the Mechanical Appliances Used for the Preservation of Wood
The book is illustrated by 119 diagrams, plans and photographic reproductions Serving to elucidate the subject matter, and there is also a full index by which reference is greatly-facilitated.
In conclusion, the Author desires to say that the base of the work is a paper on The Preservation of Wood, re ad by him at a meeting of The Royal Society of Arts, held on the 18th February, 1914. He also takes this opportunity of rendering his thanks generally to the makers of wood-preserving machinery and others from whom he has received much valuable information and assistance, which he has endeavoured to acknowledge specifically in the text.
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