— II — 



Turredonzimeno, Villanueva de la Reina, Jamilena, Rube and Cazelle 

 de la Sierra. 



The production fluctuates between 480 and 600 kilos per acre. 



France imported in 1902: — 



from Spain 431652 kilos 



„ Russia 228563 „ 



„ Turkey 630402 „ 



„ other countries . . . 84068 „ 



Total 1374685 kilos, 

 having a value of 1099748 fr. 



The cultivation of anise in Turkey appears to be continuously 

 on the increase. According to a report from the German Consulate 

 at Dedeagatch in Macedonia, the exports from that port in 1903 

 amounted to no less than 1095300 kilos anise, value 547650 fr. Of 

 this quantity, there were shipped 



to France 865 100 kilos 



„ Germany 170000 „ 



„ Belgium 10 000 ,, 



„ Austria .. . . . . . 30000 „ 



„ Italy 20200 „ 



Total 1095300 kilos, 



whilst in 1902 the anise-export of this port only came to 355982 kilos. 

 In Thuringia and Moravia the anise-cultivation has practically 

 become extinct. Chile, which country some 20 years ago sent us 

 considerable quantities, now appears to consume its own production, 

 for this article is no longer mentioned in the export-statistics. 



Hoering 1 ) makes a communication on peculiar reactions of some 

 anethol derivatives. Is is a well-known fact that anethol dibromide 

 reacts with sodium methylate with formation of anisyl-ethyl ketone; 

 with monobromoanethol dibromide the same reaction is accomplished 

 even more rapidly, not at all, however, with dibrominated anethol 

 dibromide. This remarkable occurrence, and also the fact that he 

 received from monobromoanethol dibromide (with one bromine atom 

 in the benzene nucleus), by the action of concentrated nitric acid, 

 a dibromoanisyl-bromoethyl ketone in which a second atom bromine 

 had entered the benzene ring, led Hoering to agree with Semmler's 2 ) 

 view of the conjugated double-linkings of the side-chain and the benzene- 

 ring. According to this view, a bromine atom in the a-side position 



*) Berl. Berichte 37 (1904), 1542. 



2 ) Berl. Berichte 36 (1903), 1033. Report October 1903, 88 and April 1904, 107. 



