Enemies of Timber: Dry Rot and the Death-Watch Beetle, in which the Origin and Life-History of the two worst Enemies of Timber are given, with a Description of the Damage they cause, and the Methods to be adopted for their Examination

Abstract

IN these days when there is grave need of sound technical advice designed to decrease private and national waste, and when it is so desirable that the general public shall acquire confidence in the practical value of technological science, it is regrettable that so unsatisfactory a compilation as the book under review should have been published. In the text elementary errors on fundamental matters and details abound, while misleading practical conclusions and unsound advice recur at intervals. A few quotations suffice to justify this condemnation. Enemies of Timber: Dry Rot and the Death-Watch Beetle, in which the Origin and Life-History of the two worst Enemies of Timber are given, with a Description of the Damage they cause, and the Methods to be adopted for their Examination. By Ernest G. Blake. Pp. xvii + 206 + 10 plates. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1925.) 12s. 6d. net.