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Eucalyptol. The demand for this pure body was as important 

 as it was regular, but could be satisfied completely, as the market 

 offered a sufficient selection of oils rich in eucalyptol, at moderate 

 prices. A change in the prices is not to be expected in the near future. 



H. Thorns and B. Molle have published a treatise on the reduction- 

 products of eucalyptol 1 ), of which the principal points have already 

 been dealt with in our last Report 2 ). 



Geraniol. The present price of citronella oil would justify an 

 increase in the quotations, but improved manufacturing methods enable 

 us to abstain from this for the present. 



Heliotropin. With regard to this important article, nothing new 

 can be reported. For good qualities, such as our product, the present 

 prices are willingly paid; when properly calculated they leave only a 

 very modest profit. 



Our extra-purified quality is very much in demand. 



Menthol, recryst. pur. During the last six months sales 

 have again been very important. The brisk demand, favoured by 

 declining prices, still continues , and the present low value is also 

 looked upon as suitable for speculative purchases, on the assumption 

 that the war in the Far East is bound to affect this article. This 

 view has been so wide-spread and firmly rooted ever since the com- 

 mencement of the war, that we had to use every argument to 

 restrain clients from making large contracts at a time when we had 

 already received information as to the important results of this year's 

 peppermint-harvest in Japan. 



To the last-named cause alone the present low prices are due, 

 but they appear to have now reached their lowest level. A favour- 

 able influence is exerted on this article by the failure of the pepper- 

 mint-harvest in America, and by the constantly growing consumption 

 of menthol, which is now used on a large scale for cosmetic-therapeutic 

 remedies. 



Statistics respecting the shipments of crude menthol during the 

 first six months of this year are found on pp. 75/76 of the present 

 Report. 



For the purpose of obtaining clear aqueous solutions of menthol 3 ), 

 sarsaparilla tincture has lately come into use in the place of quillaya 

 tincture which on account of its content of saponin and glucoside is 



*) Arch. derPharm. 242 (1904), 181. 



2 ) Report April 1904, 60. 



3 ) Pharm. Centralh. 45 (1904), 180. 



