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INDEX—Coiitinucd 



Protections methods, costs, 66 

 concrete 

 general, 1 19 

 Black's patent, 24, 123 

 Camp process, 123 

 first use, 22 

 Gunite process, 129 

 Holmes process, 23, 121 

 Koetitz process, 24, 126 

 Newsome-Squire process, 125 

 pre-cast jackets, 125 

 service records, 151, 160 

 creosote 



empty-cell process, 116 

 first use, 18 



full-cell (Bethell) process, 21, HI 

 Isaacs and Curtis process, 21 

 Robbins process, 18 

 Samuels process, 18 

 specifications, 108 

 experimental, 163, 180 

 external, 94, 103, 119 

 "Paint and batten," 97 

 first use, 22 

 Questionnaire used by Committee, 344 

 Ramage, W. D., 7, 163 

 Rate of boring and growth o{ Bankia and 



Teredo, 231, 289 

 Rate of boring oi Limnoria, 324 

 Rawson, R. H., 6, 108 

 Records of life of piling, see "Service Rec- 

 ords" 

 Redwood piling, 89 



Reinforced concrete, see under "Con- 

 crete" 

 Repairs to damaged piles, 84 

 Resistance of wood to borers, 92, 179 

 Respiratory system of Teredo, 219 

 Rock-boring mollusks, 301 

 Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, 1, 36 

 Salinity, determination of, 345 

 general, 41, 55, 248 

 in Carquinez Strait, 26, 42, 266 

 in Sacramento and San Joaquin River 



deltas, 41 

 lethal, to Limnoria, 327 

 to Teredo, ISl 



Salinity — continued 



test stations, 11, 192 



variations in, effect on borers, 55, 235, 

 254, 291, 327 

 Sampling water for salinity tests, 345 

 San Diego Bay, 57, 192, 294 

 San Francisco Bay, conditions in, 248, 266 



geography of, 33 and frontispiece 

 San Francisco Bay Marine Piling Com- 

 mittee, employees, 7 



objects and organization of, 8 



organization of biological work, 190 



personnel, 4 



publications, 191 



work accomplished, 12 

 Sanitation, marine, 84 

 San Pablo Bay, 190 

 Schaw-Batcher Company, 295 

 Scupper nailing, 94 

 Seattle, 293, 305 



Seawall, San Francisco, 17, 25, 30 

 Sectional form jackets, 122 

 Selenite treatment, 173 

 Service records, 85, 149 

 Sewage, effect on borers, 57, 267, 292 

 Sheet metal protections, 95 

 Shell Company of California, 129 



wharves, 155 

 Shells of shipworms, 194 



classification, 196 



growth, 289 



terminology, 195 



use in boring, 222 

 Shipworms, see "Bankia" and "Teredo" 

 Size of shipworms, 232 

 Southern Pacific Company, 10, 192 



wharves, 101, 155 



(see also "Long Wharf") 

 South San Francisco, 28, 295 

 Sphaeroma, 331 

 Squire, H. E., 7, 136 

 Standard Oil Company, wharves, 155 

 Suisun Bay, 190 

 Tallow wood, 92, 179 

 Temperature in San Francisco Bay, 252, 

 266 



effect on borers, 52, 286, 291 



