#Statistics of Production# -- The Hop Trade -- Index. #TIMBER AND WOOD WASTE.# #TIMBER#: A Comprehensive Study of Wood in all its Aspects (Commercial and Botanical), showing the Different Applications and Uses of Timber in Various Trades, etc. Translated from the French of Paul CHARPENTIER. Royal 8vo. 437 pp. 178 Illustrations. Price 12s. 6d. net. (Post free, 13s. home; 14s. abroad.) #Contents.# #Physical and Chemical Properties of Timber# -- Composition of the Vegetable Bodies -- Chief Elements -- M. Fremy's Researches -- Elementary Organs of Plants and especially of Forests -- Different Parts of Wood Anatomically and Chemically Considered -- General Properties of Wood -- #Description of the Different Kinds of Wood# -- Principal Essences with Caducous Leaves -- Coniferous Resinous Trees -- #Division of the Useful Varieties of Timber in the Different Countries of the Globe# -- European Timber -- African Timber -- Asiatic Timber -- American Timber -- Timber of Oceania -- #Forests# -- General Notes as to Forests; their Influence -- Opinions as to Sylviculture -- Improvement of Forests -- Unwooding and Rewooding -- Preservation of Forests -- Exploitation of Forests -- Damage caused to Forests -- Different Alterations -- #The Preservation of Timber# -- Generalities -- Causes and Progress of Deterioration -- History of Different Proposed Processes -- Dessication -- Superficial Carbonisation of Timber -- Processes by Immersion -- Generalities as to Antiseptics Employed -- Injection Processes in Closed Vessels -- The Boucherie System, Based upon the Displacement of the Sap -- Processes for Making Timber Uninflammable -- #Applications of Timber# -- Generalities -- Working Timber -- Paving -- Timber for Mines -- Railway Traverses -- Accessory Products -- Gums -- Works of M. Fremy -- Resins -- Barks -- Tan -- Application of Cork -- The Application of Wood to Art and Dyeing -- Different Applications of Wood -- Hard Wood -- Distillation of Wood -- Pyroligneous Acid -- Oil of Wood -- Distillation of Resins -- Index. #THE UTILISATION OF WOOD WASTE.# Translated from the German of Ernst HUBBARD. Crown 8vo. 192 pp. Fifty Illustrations. Price 5s. net. (Post free, 5s. 4d. home; 5s. 6d. abroad.) #Contents.#