Excerpt from Investigation of Synthetic Tanning Material In 1904 the chestnut blight, a fungus importation from Japan and China, was recognized as a serious disease around New York City. Since that year the disease has spread rapidly, until at the present time it has killed 80 per cent of the available chestnut north of Virginia and penetrated western North Carolina eastern Tennessee, and Georgia, the vital centers of the remaining stands of chestnut timber. The effect of this blight from the point of View of its economic consequence has not yet been fully determined, but it now appears certain that any estimate of our resources based upon an inexhaustible supply of chestnut wood must be subject to radical modifications. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.