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the actual percentage of total geraniol in the sample, and which shall be 

 comparable with each other. In our last Report 1 ) we gave a detailed account 

 for our method, the trustworthiness of which has been proved by tests 

 with mixtures of known geraniol- and citronellal-content, and we may there- 

 fore content ourselves here with a reference to that Report. It goes without 

 saying that in our laboratories our estimations are exclusively made 

 according to this method, for which reason we refrain from quoting the 

 English method here. 



Clove Oil. From the latest report of the British Consul in Zanzibar 2 ) 

 we reproduce a few tables which may be welcome to our readers in 

 completion of the statements made in our last Reports. With regard 

 to table A, it should be added that the remarkable decline in the clove 

 exports to England is due to the fact that of late large parcels have been 

 sent to the U. S. direct without transhipment in British ports, and also that 

 considerable quantities of cloves declared as destined for Hamburg and 

 Rotterdam, ultimately find their way to British ports as a result of 

 "optional transhipment". 



The probable result of the present year's summer crop was at first 

 the subject of the most contradictory rumours, but this is the case every 

 year, and it is only within the last few weeks that the position has been 

 cleared up to this extent, that it has become quite certain, from announce- 

 ments made in the Zanzibar Government Gazette of 18 th July, that a 

 plentiful yield may be expected.- 



According to a report of the German Consul-General in Zanzibar, 

 which has only lately been published in the Official German reports of 

 Trade and Industry 3 ), the result of the clove crop in the last harvest-year 

 (August 1910 to June 1911) has been a quite exceptionally poor one. 

 According to statistics now published it amounted to 191 303 frazileh 

 (1 frazilah = 35 lbs. English). This crop has been the worst but one 

 since 1895/6, having been only surpassed in smallness by that of the 

 year 1903/4. The prospects for the crop of the coming harvest year 

 (August 1911 to June 1912) on the other hand are very favourable, according 

 to a statement published by the Government of Zanzibar in its Official 

 Gazette of 18 th July, and it is to be expected, says this authority, that the 

 yield of the abundant crop of the harvest year 1908/9, amounting to 

 615418 frazileh, will be exceeded. It is probable that the crop will be 

 gathered early, and that therefore considerable quantities of cloves will 

 already be brought to market within the near future. The gathering will 

 probably be in full swing in the month of October. 



x ) Report April 1911, 46. 



2 ) Diplomatic and Consular Reports 1911, No. 4716. 



% ) Nachrichten f. Handel u. Industrie 1911, No. 96. 



