Excerpt from Hand-Book for Charcoal Burners A Committee of three, representing the Commercial, Agricultural, and Iron Manufacturing interests of the country, was appointed to decide on the papers handed in. In March, 1864, four treatises had been presented, but it was decided that none of these deserved the prize. 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.