Ill — 



No. 



District 



Khoti 



Date of sale 



Approximate 

 quantity 



i 



2 



3 

 4 

 5 

 6 



7 

 8 



9 



Shimoga . . . 

 ?» ... 

 ,, ... 

 Kadur . . 



»» ... 

 Hassan . . 

 Bangalore . . 

 Mysore . 



*» ... 



Tirthahalli 



Sagar 



Shimoga 



Tarikere 



Chikmagalur 



Hassan 



Bangalore 



Seringapatam 



Hunsur 



1 8th Nov. 1909 



22nd „ 1909 



25th „ 1909 



29th „ 1909 



2 nd E> ec# jqoq 



6th n JQ09 



9th „ 1909 



13th „ 1909 



1 6th n jgog 



200 tons 

 100 „ 

 500 „ 

 200 ,, 

 400 „ 

 200 „ 

 100 „ 

 250 „ 

 450 » 









Total 



2400 tons 



Sassafras Oil. Short notes on a new use for sassafras oil have 

 been published 1 ). It is reported that this oil has been successfully 

 employed for the destruction of the eggs of lice, and also against the 

 bites and stings of insects. If applied immediately after the sting, the 

 oil is said to prevent all disagreeable after-effects. A camphor oil 

 containing safrol has been employed for similar objects. 



As is well known, eugenol, which chemically is closely allied to 

 safrol, is used for similar purposes. 



Savin Oil. In criminal cases it may be, in certain circumstances, 

 a matter of the greatest importance to be able to prove the presence 

 of small quantities of oil of savin. Beythien and Atenstadt 2 ) have 

 searched through technical literature for data showing how this can 

 be done, but all they have discovered is a few colour-reactions des- 

 cribed by Jaworowski, and these, as was to be expected, gave no 

 typical identifications. Beythien and Atenstadt declare that this also 

 applies to the furfurol and bichloride of tin tests, which they applied 

 for the detection of oils of savin and juniper -berries. These tests, 

 like all colour -reactions, require a certain skill in their application 

 and leave the operator entirely in the lurch when less than io°/ of 

 savin oil is present. The authors are of opinion that the determina- 

 tion of constants only can supply sufficient data for certain detection, 

 but it is probable that in only very few cases sufficient material would 

 be available for the determination of constants, and that the only factor 

 which it would be possible to determine would be the optical rotation. 

 For this purpose (assuming the abstract from which we quote to repre- 

 sent correctly the authors' proceedings), it is said that one single drop 

 will suffice, but we are unfortunately without particulars of the manner 

 in which this determination is to be carried out. 



*) Pharmaceutical Journal 82 (1909), 665, 729, yZj. 

 2 ) Zeitschr. Untersuch. der Nahrungs- u. GenuBmittel 16 (1908), 677. 

 Pharm. Zentralh. 50 (1909), 345. 



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