Bourne’s (J.), experiments with wood, 254 Bowring’s (Sir J.), account of ants in Obando, 247 Boyden’s (A.), remedies for dry rot, 95, 112, 122 Brande (Dr.), on preserving woods, 139, 142, 155 Bréant’s patents, 145 Brick dust, tar, &c., to preserve piles, 228 Brimstone, bees-wax, &c., to preserve wood, 156 Brochard and Watteau’s process, 80 Browne’s (Sir S.), experiments with piles, 229 Brunei (Sir M. I.), 138, 139, 215, 228 Buffon, 144, 198 Builders, bad, 182, 202 Building, hints on, 180 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 Calomel, composition of, 264 Calvert’s caoutchouc process, 162 Camphor disliked by ants, 287 Canadian white spruce deals liable to warp, 65 ” yellow wood liable to rot in damp situations, 36, 43 Caoutchouc, solution of, 162 ” and other substances, 163 Carbolic acid, for wood beetles, 257, 276 Carbonate of soda (Payne’s process), 154 Carbonization by gas, 97, 164 Carpenter bees destroy wood, 240, 259 Carpenter (Dr.), on growth of fungi, 43 Carvers, wood, 280 Carvings destroyed by worms, 266 ” how to clean, 270 ” to destroy worms in, 286 Cashiobury, carvings at, destroyed by beetle, 269 Cement, to protect piles, 227, 228 Ceylon, ants in, 246 Chalk, and other substances, 161 Champy’s tallow process, 144 Chapman (W.), on dry rot, 25, 73, 112, 119, 122, 165, 167 Charcoal--_see_ Oils, Whale, and Fish--to preserve wood, 121 ” and other substances, 157 Charpentier’s hot air patent, 80 Charring wood, 95 ” when useful, 100 ” and pitching, 96 Chassloup Lambat’s suggestion to prevent rot, 163 Château of the Roques d’Oudres, girders at, 174 Chatsworth, Gibbons’ carvings at, 281 Chelura terebrans destroy piles, 219 Chemists prefer thin creosote, 131 Chinese method of preserving wood, 167 Chippendale’s carvings, 281 Chloride of calcium, 146 ” of manganese, 154 ” of sodium, 164 ” of zinc--_see_ Burnett’s Process Chlorine gas, and other substances, 123 Chloroform, for wood beetles, 277 Chunam, and cocoa-nut oil, 107 Church at Bayonne, fir girders in, 174 ” of Holy Trinity, Cork, rot in vaults, 39 ” in London, rot in roof, 184 ” in Surrey, 289 ” of St. Mark, Venice, rot in curb, 176 ” of Old St. Pancras, London, rot in vaults, 40 Cleghorn (Dr.), on creosoted sleepers, 47, 136, 142 Coal Exchange, flooring of, 81 ” tar, 170, 233, 246, 256, 262 ” ” and other substances 123, 284, 285 ” vessels last long, 117 Cobley’s patent lime process, 166