— 101 — 



always lsevorotatory is incorrect, and that dextrorotatory oil of this 

 description is occasionally met with. He now quotes a fresh instance 1 ). 

 A distillate of English rosemary prepared in the year 1910 showed a ro- 

 tation of +0°48\ Its sp. gr. was about 0,9021 (15°). 



Samphire Oil. We have already on several occasions referred to 

 samphire oil, which has been prepared by Borde and examined by him 

 and by Delepine. Borde 2 ) has now published a pamphlet entitled "Etude 

 pharmacognostique du Crithmum maritimum L." 3 ), in which he has 

 collected the results of his pharmacognostical and chemical investigations. 

 We are unfortunately unable for want of space to go into details here on 

 the many interesting historical, botanical and chemical particulars of this 

 publication, with which moreover, as stated, we have already dealt in 

 part in previous Reports, and we must therefore content ourselves with 

 a reference to the original. 



Sandalwood Oil, East Indian. Since we reported on this important 

 article last autumn, the long hoped-for and often-predicted improvement 

 in value has at last become an accomplished fact, but we are particularly 

 pleased to be able to state that, thanks to our great producing-capacity, 

 we have succeeded in supplying, at the old prices and for some months 

 ahead, our principal regular customers at home and abroad before the 

 price advanced from about c^ 20. — to about c4t 24. — per kilo last 

 January. As regards the causes of the advance, it would be superfluous 

 again to go into details, seeing that on many previous occasions we have 

 insistently laid stress upon the fact that the selling-prices of the oil 

 were far from corresponding to a parity based upon the value of the wood, 

 and that we were only able to continue to offer as cheaply as before 

 because of the extensive purchases which we had made on the basis of 

 the old quotations. The first inducement to the practising of greater 

 reticence in selling was the publication of the final public sale lists of 

 the Mysore Government at the beginning of November, when it appeared 

 that the quantity to be offered for public auction would only amount to 

 about 1438 tons, whereas the first announcement of August 30 th had 

 mentioned 2250 tons. In the course of November the quantity declared 

 for sale was actually found to be 2000 tons, — the discrepancy being 

 explained by the statement that the weather during the felling of the trees 

 had been bad, — and a further supply of 250 tons was announced for 

 sale by private treaty after the auctions, but by that time the market had 

 acquired so firm a tone that owing to the exceptional demand the prices 

 were beginning to move up, and they continued to do so until they reached 



*) Pharmaceutical Journ. 85 (1910), 541. 



2 ) Comp. Report October 1909, 108; April 1910, 94; October 1910, 112. 



3 ) From a reprint kindly sent to us by the author. 



