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of cheap soaps. Generally speaking the sale of eucalyptus oil is rather 

 suffering from the competition of eucalyptol, which is now so cheap, 

 and the advantages of which have been expounded by us at length 

 on various occasions. 



From the Transvaal we have received a sample of Eucalyptus oil 

 which, judging by the odour and by its content of cineol, might have 

 been a crude Globulus oil. Its constants also lie within the limits 

 laid down for oils of this class: di 5 o 0,9236, «rj-f" I °45 / > n D20° M6337; 

 it was free from phellandrene, soluble in 2,8 vols, of 70 per cent, 

 and more alcohol, and had a cineol-content of about 65°/ . 



H. D. Baker 1 ) reports on the use of eucalyptus leaves in Tasmania 

 and calls attention to a new use for eucalyptus trees. Eucalyptus 

 oil is distilled in Australia for medicinal purposes, and in New South 

 Wales acetic acid is gained as a bye-product in this industry, but at 

 Port Esperance the oil is obtained as a bye-product in the preparation 

 of a more valuable extract. This extract is used as a preservative 

 for boilers. It is miscible with water and frees the boiler from any 

 acid and from fatty bodies and salts by forming an innocuous pre- 

 cipitate with these destructive ingredients and preventing incrustation. 

 Four tons of eucalyptus leaves give one ton of extract and 70 to 

 80 lbs. of eucalyptus oil. 



Erucalyptus leaves are also recommended for use in gas manu- 

 factue. It is said that the bark can be employed in paper and tannin 

 manufacture, as well as for leather -dressing, and the wood is very 

 suitable for railway sleepers. 



Geranium Oil. In the course of the summer only few, if any, changes 

 have taken place in the geranium oil market. The prices of Algerian 

 oil remained completely unaltered and in spite of all rumours that the 

 greater part of the cultivations have been abandoned, offers were not 

 lacking. A few important producers showed themselves very ready 

 to make concessions, although they maintained that they were only 

 in a position to sell cheaply because they had been able to obtain 

 considerably higher prices for the greater part of their cutput by having 

 sold it previously when the market was better. This probably refers 

 to contracts running over several years, \vhich have probably not turned 

 out very satisfactorily for the buyers. The exports during the first 

 7 months of the last two years were as follows: — 



1909 26700 kilos, value fr. 58900, 



1908 24600 „ „ „ 54100. 



The average value in 1909 w r as 22 fr. per kilo! 



x ) Daily Consular and Trade Reports, No. 3415, 25. Febr. 1909, p. 13. 



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