: at ‘several thousand tons, the price pete up to 56 £ per ton. * 
oil obtained by himself had the following properties: disco 0.856 to 0.857, Gy — 37.3 
— 37.7°, npsso 1.4653 to 1.4655, point of nila aaen 32. ey HE contained: an ampl 
most important adulterants and substitutes and the tegal measures against fakers, ¢ 
oe ects. 
fan the American reduce but consists of a miiekate of the oils of ‘Paes PB, 2a 
P. Pinaster, Sol. F. C. Palazzo’) reported already previously on the propertic 
oil of authentical resin collected in Italy from Pinus Pinea. M. Palazzo’) now 
the pure oil of Italian turpentine from Pinus Pinaster. It shows a ‘somewhat high r 
rotation than French turpentine oil, which likewise comes. from the maritime. pine. T 
proportion of «-pinene. 
Palazzo further gives the folbaine particulars: for a commercial oil, a E 
the oils from both kinds of Pinus = diso 0.863, @p — 48. 15°, fino 1 4678; for 2 a t cal 
oil = = diso 0.867 to 0.871, ene Gey pxse 1 eee to 1.4707. FAs pe Go: 
A French periodical*) publishes . a collective report of the turpentine oil trade, th 
the article does not contain any fresh een of view, it wall ee to nea 
taruentine oil®), as Halse and S. Samuelsen’) have been able to , dete! Lege 
contains «-pinene, in addition to a small quantity of ee he ca the Pee : 
“Norwegian wood turpentine oil”. - 
namneecies mostly patented methods which have been secanuteAeeR tor tbe partie 
of the product. The task undertaken by the author is most opportune: given. a 
scarcity of turpentine oil and similar products, se 
ee 
_ Thyme Oil. Canals”) tried to ascertain in how far the formation ‘of the 
il in the plant is influenced by the different solar rays. For. this aa 
hyme plants under a frame with various kinds of stained a 
+ ae ed > oy UM 
1) Nachr. f. Hand., eee und Landw. 1918, N° 74, p. 4. ~*) Annali Chim. opp 
Soc. Chem. apogee 30 (19'8), 1122; Hendin O oon. 1917, ae — K 
0918), 100. “1 Bull. Soc. “chim. WW. ‘21 (1917), 204: 
