Observations on Wood Protection Research in Europe

The author, a pathologist from the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory, reports on the Eighth International Convention on Wood Preservation at Freiburg, Germany, at which he presented a paper, “Biological Contributions to the Improvement of Preservative Treatment.” Soft rot received more attention than any other single subject at the meeting, perhaps because it has only recently been recognized as a form of fungus damage differing from typical decay. At pathology labs in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, and England, he observed a variety of apparatus and techniques used to study wood protection; among the topics being investigated were the permeability of wood, the methodology of accelerated testing for resistance to fungi and insects, the significance of soft rot, and the deterioration of chipped pulpwood in storage.

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