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whatever may be their origin, all dissolve in 2 to 3 vol. 70 per cent, 

 alcohol, whilst the adulterated oils do not dissolve. 



Sandalwood Oil, East Indian. The quotations have remained 

 unchanged; the demand continued to be brisk, but there are indications 

 that the prices of sandalwood-oil capsules, forced down by senseless 

 competition, are such that the manufacturers of the capsules are be- 

 ginning to be somewhat more reserved in their purchases. It appears 

 that large stocks of oil and wood in London and Hamburg are still in 

 the hands of the producers, so that any particularly animated interest 

 in the auctions in India, which began on November 17 th , as per par- 

 ticulars hereafter, was not to be anticipated. Nevertheless, according 

 to cables received until going to press, the first three sales have started 

 off at very high prices, paid chiefly by natives, but it remains to be 

 seen whether they will last. 



Statement of the quantities of Sandalwood to be sold between 

 November 17 th and December 17 th : — 









Quantity 





Date 



Auction 













Tons 



cwts. 



lbs. 



Nov. 17 



Fraserpet 



230 



3 



44 



» 19 



Hunsur 



500 



2 



— 



„ 22 



Seringapatam 



303 



15 



28 



„ 26 



Bangalore 



82 



6 



87 



» 29 



Hassan 



200 



I 



84 



Dec. 3 



Chikmagalur 



308 



5 



— 



„ 6 



Tarikere 



256 



1 



84 



„ 8 



Shimoga 



487 



4 



49 



» 13 



Sagar 



175 



12 



— 



n 17 



Tirthahalli 



178 



11 



36 





Total: 



2722 



3 



76 



We read in the "Chemist and Druggist" that Parry 1 ) has also 

 detected adulterations of sandalwood oil capsules, and has found that 

 the adulterant was West Indian sandalwood oil, which, as is well 

 known, is about three times as cheap as East Indian. Yet we would 

 point out that the designation Schimmelia oleifera Holmes, mentioned 

 by Parry as the mother-plant of West Indian sandalwood oil, no 



x ) Chemist and Druggist 68 (1906), 951; comp. also Report October 1903, 

 63; October 1904, 83; April 1905, 72; April 1906, 61; also Gildemeister 

 and Hoffmann, The Volatile Oils, p. 342. 



