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cently i in an English periodical’). iA spring 1917 and 1918, a small aeleGty of excellent 
quality | has been distilled there. That obtained in 1917 was a golden yellow, semi- 
congealed mass, possessing the characteristic intense odour of otto of roses. The 
constants - were found to agree closely with those recorded for Bulgarian rose oil. 
4 _ According. to experts, Cyprus otto of roses has a fairly good but somewhat weak odour. 
In 1918, the oil was distilled between the 7th and 234 May. The distillation was 
carried out in two different ways: on the one hand distillation of roses together with 
buds, sepals and peduncles, on the other, .with petals only. According to the first 
method, 944 okes of material yielded 92 drams of oil, i. e. 10 okes 104 drams of 
material for every dram of oil, as against 8 okes 250 drams to one dram of oil in 1917. 
_ The difference was due to the rainy weather in the first weak of distillation, in 1918. 
“In the second way only 50 okes of roses were used, yielding 13 okes 100 drams of 
petals, from which just one dram of rose oil was obtained. Distillation was carried 
out with native “souma” stills in a proportion of 3 okes of water to 1 oke of roses, 
from which 1 oke of rose water was obtained for every oke of roses. This rose water 
_was redistilled, and one third of. the quantity of the original rose water was then 
- obtained. This was placed in 2*/2 oke bottles, kept submerged in cold water for 
24 hours, when the floating oil was collected by means of a pipette. 
Sandalwood Oil, East Indian. In December 1917, the Committee of the Upper 
India Chamber of Commerce had to occupy itself with a memorandum handed to the 
_ Government by the perfume manufacturers of Kanauj, containing a protest against the 
_ Mysore Government’s decree, ‘prohibiting all sales by auction of sandalwood for the 
manufacture of oil and claiming it all to be reserved for the Government factory at 
: Bangalore”). According to said memorandum, it was to be feared that the Madras 
~ Government would have to reserve for Mysore all the Coorg and Coimbatore sandal- 
wood. -After having examined the matter, experts have advised, the Committee not to 
grant the petition, as in Kanauj the sandalwood oil is not distilled in an economical 
manner. The perfumers might buy oil from Mysore and wood from Coorg and Coim- 
_ batore. In any case, internal matters of the state could not be interfered with. The 
Committee, therefore, decided not to do anything in the matter. 7 
; The Department of Statistics publishes the following figures regarding the trans- 
_marine eXports to foreign countries for some months of 1918*):— 
__- Exports from: Bombay ' Madras Bengal 
March .. . 35galls. 5550 Rs. 13 galls. 3950 Rs. . —galls. — _ Rs. 
Mee 528. | 132000.- ,, ae et a 640... 108475 - 
May 408 , 102000 , Be — , Bais ROIS.) 
oes 6 ae 3360 ,, ms ESET aN 40. 32 36.000 > 
AZ Fike SAORI chy Mg ee TB. INT 456: 
‘August . . . 1887 ,, 451050 ,, 213) 44 “ST600;- 3 (00. 347-20540".~ 
‘ “siageale - 979 , 249279 a Se HE Quy 2160 ,, 
gs Some time ago, a seemingly more rational method has been adopted for the 
‘manufacture of sandalwood oil in British India‘). This is confirmed by a notice in 
a periodical®), according to which the Bangalore factory produced 59690 Ibs. of oil | 
in the year 1916/1917. After £ 55425 had been paid to the Forest Authorities for 
% 1) Perfum. Record 10 (1919), 29, 140. — %) Comp. Report April/October 1918, 44. — #4) Perfum. Record 9 
(1918), 207, 270; 10 (1919), 14. — *) Comp. Report October 1918, 43. — 5) Der neue Orient 3 (1918), 499. 
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