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Santolina oil has also been mentioned recently in a French periodical l ), 

 but no particulars of its properties are given there, all that is stated being 

 that the oil has an odour reminding of ambrette and closely resembling 

 that of muscatel sage oil. We cannot say the same of the oil distilled by us. 



Oil of Satureja cuneifolia. We are indebted to Dr. Giaconi, of 

 Trieste, for four samples, distilled by himself in Dalmatia, of oil of Satureja 

 cuneifdlia, Tenore, N. O. Labiate. The oils were of a brownish-yellow colour 

 and possessed an odour reminding of thyme; their other characteristics 

 were as follow: — 





dloO 



fi D 



n D2 oo 



Phenols 



Soluble in 



1. 



0,9182 



— 4°45' 



1,49816 



28% 



1,2 vol. a. m. 80% ale. 



2. 



0,9190 



— 5° 15' 



1,49824 



34% 



1,1 vol. a. m. 80% ale. 



3. 



0,9444 



— 2° 15' 



1,50528 



59% 



2,5 vol. a. m. 70% ale. 



4. 



0,9440 



— 1°50' 



1,50556 



59% 



2,7 vol. a. m. 70% ale. 



Samples nos. 1 and 2 were insoluble in 10 vols. 70% alcohol, nos. 3 

 and 4 were soluble in about their own vol. of 80% alcohol. The phenols 

 consisted of carvacrol, the non-phenols had a pronounced odour of cymene, 

 but the samples at our disposal were too small to prove the presence of 

 that body. 



New Pharmacopoeias. 

 German Pharmacopoeia V. 



In our criticism of the articles mentioned in the 5 th edition of the 

 German Pharmacopoeia which relate to our branch of industry, we pointed 

 out, inter alia, how regrettable it was that the draft of the Pharmacopoeia 

 had not been submitted to public comment at the time, because, had it 

 been so submitted, many incorrect statements might have been rectified 

 before publication of the book. A paper read by Prof. Kobert before 

 the Rostock Medical Society in the spring of the present year shows that 

 we did not stand alone in expressing this view. In this paper, of which 

 an abstract has appeared in the Pharmazeidische Zeitimg*), Prof. Kobert 

 points out that it would be desirable, for critical as well as for other 

 reasons, "if the mystery-mongering which was unfortunately still regarded 

 as necessary in the preliminary work of the Pharmacopoeia were done 



: ) Parfum. moderne 4 (1911), 97. 

 2 ) Pharm. Ztg. 56 (1911), 381. 



