| RefNo | AP/21/6 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'Observations on the dry-rot of ships, and an effectual method to prevent it pointed out' by James Mease |
| Date | 1837 |
| Description | Mease, of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, presents a method for preventing dry rot which involves impregnating the timbers and planks of ships with muriate of soda [sodium chloride], or 'marine salt'.
Subject: Engineering / Chemistry
Received 11 May 1837. Read 15 June 1837. Communicated by Charles Konig.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Observations on the dry-rot of ships, and an effectual method to prevent it pointed out'. |
| Extent | 18p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0297 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3679 | Konig; Charles Dietrich Eberhard (1774 - 1851); botanist and mineralogist | 1774 - 1851 |