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  <dc:title>Unpublished paper, 'Memoir on the antiseptic qualities of peat moss viewed as a preventive of dry rot in wood' by Archibald Duff</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Duff hopes to alleviate the problem of British ships suffering from dry rot through the application of peat moss, known to possess antiseptic properties. 

Subject: Biology / Chemistry

Read to the Royal Society on 24 December 1818. Communicated by W T [William Thomas] Brande. Originally written as having been communicated by the Secretary [Taylor Combe], but this is struck out and corrected to Brande.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>7 December 1818</dc:date>
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