” increased by stoves, 172 ” _in ground_, under house at Hampstead, 20 ” _under foundations_, Norfolk House, 176 ” ” ” Grosvenor Place, 176 ” ” _floor_, Stanmore Cottage, 183 ” ” _hearthstone_, 43 ” ” _pavement_ at Basingstoke, 43 ” _on paved floor_, Westminster Hall, 44 ” _in vaults_, Old St. Pancras Church, 40 ” _on vaults_, Holy Trinity Church, Cork, 39 ” in cask in cellar, 43 ” ” _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 ” ” _barn floor_, 42 ” _on floor_ of house, No. 106, Fenchurch Street, London, 186 ” _in wood bond_, Covent Garden theatre, 175 ” ” _damp closet_, or pantry, 16 ” ” _wood lining_ to walls--basement, 125 ” ” floor of house in the Temple, London, 124 ” ” _brestsummer_ of shop, 42 ” ” _girder_ of house (Earl of Mansfield’s), 32 ” ” ” building at Malta, 32 ” ” _partition_, No. 16, Mark Lane, London, 188 ” ” _roof_, church in London, 184 ” ” ” ” Surrey, 289 ” ” _curb of dome_, St. Mark’s, Venice, 176 ” ” _dome_, Bank of England, 42 ” ” ” Halle-au-Blé, Paris, 42 ” ” ” Panthéon, Paris, 42 ” ” Society of Arts building, Adelphi, 42 ” ” _field gates_, 183 ” ” _foreign timber_, 35 ” ” _paling_ 125 ” _in ships_, 23, 26, 73, 93, 112, 114, 172 ” prevented by seasoning, 63 ” good, cheap, and easy remedy required, 291 Du Hamel, 66, 72, 144 Duke of Devonshire’s house, dry rot at, 40 D’Uslaw’s, Meyer, steam process, 102 Dutch method of coating piles, 221 Earl Brownlow’s house, beetles in carvings at, 268 ” of Mansfield’s house, rotten yellow fir girder at, 32 Emerson’s boiled oil process for rot, 110 Endogenous stems, grow from within, 4 Engineers, English, 139, 288 ” foreign, rules for sulphate of copper, 151 ” ” ” creosote, 131, 133 Evelyn (Sir J.), on seasoning wood, 53, 73, 75 Exogenous stems, grow from without, 4 Faraday (Prof.), on corrosive sublimate, 129, 263 Felt, tarred, and copper sheathing, 285 Fences, how to prevent them rotting, 46, 161 Fenchurch Street, No. 106, dry rot on floor, 186 Feuchtwanger’s (Dr.), water-glass for piles, 226 Field gates, dry rot in, 183 Fire-proof houses, cost of, 143 ” ” necessity of, 291 Flemish carvings in England, 280 Flockton’s wood tar process to preserve wood, 130 Floor-cloths, injurious effects of, 185