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of the crude borneol, instead of 10.1 g., — that is, 91 per cent of the 

 theory ; whereas, according to Baubigny's method, 4 g. of sodium, the 

 amount which yielded 9.5 g. of borneol in our process, would have 

 given only 0.6 g. 



Our method, therefore, is superior to the other two in economy, as 

 well as in the ease and speed with which it can be conducted. 



