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Oil of the last runnings, had the following properties: 04500,9524; 

 «D-]-7 30 / ; not completely soluble in 10 vol. 70 per cent, alcohol; 

 soluble in 2 and more vol. 80 per cent, alcohol. Of this oil there 

 distilled from 40 to 65 (3 mm. pressure) 8,7 °/ ; from 65 to 90 , 

 8,5%; from 90 to 115 , 15,7%; from IX 5 to 125 , 37.9%; 

 residue 29,2%. The portions which had passed over from 40 to 115 

 were once more fractionated, but we did not succeed in detecting in 

 them either borneol or camphor. 



These examinations confirm that both camphor and borneol are 

 present in oil of sage. But it may possibly depend upon the manner 

 of the distillation, whether the oil contains no camphor at all, or only 

 very little camphor. To this must also be attributed that we were 

 unable to detect camphor in the normal oil, although it is undoubt- 

 edly present in it. 



Sandalwood oil, East Indian. The annual auction sales 

 of sandalwood of the Mysore State will be held at the under- 

 mentioned places on the dates specified against each: — 



District 



Koti 









Tons 



Shimoga 



Tirthahalli 



Nov. 



l8, I907 



1 88 V, 





Sagar 



j) 



2 1, „ 



178 72 





Shimoga 



)) 



25, 



7 



439 72 



Kadur 



Tarikere 



jy 



2 8, 



j 



146 





Chikmagalur 



Dec. 



2, 



j 



1827, 



Hassan 



Hassan 



T> 



5, 



1 



1287; 



Bangalore 



Bangalore 



jy 



9> 



> 



7i 



Mysore 



Seringapatam 



jy 



12, 



, 



257 7 2 





Hunsur 



?j 



16, 



? 



305 



Total 1897 



Particulars of the Fraserpett auction, to be held on Dec. 18, have 

 not yet come to hand. — At the Tarikere auction there will be 

 offered 125 tons sandalwood of season 1906/7. 



It would be premature to draw already conclusions as to the 

 probable course of the prices; as in last year, the behaviour of the 

 native buyers, who at the last sales took up 1 2 1 4 tons out of about 

 2934 tons, will decide the course of this year's market. If little 

 inclination is shown here to buy, it may be assumed with a fair 

 amount of certainty that lower prices will rule than at the last auctions. 

 With regard to the spike disease, we have received no fresh reports. 



