~ of the native population for sandalwood which is estimated at 500 to 600 tons yearly. 
to 82.5°), citroneligh (naphthocinchoninic acd: m. p. 2050 from cittonelfaf 
urethane, m. p. 50 to 50.5°) and farnesol could yet be identified, anne 
results of earlier investigations were confirmed’), 
Oil of Roubieva miultifida. Eran Beabiona multifida, Moqu. %», a | chenopodiacea 
growing wild in California, the W. J. Bush Citrus Products Company (National City, Cali- 
fornia) distilled an essential oil which was examined by E. K. Nelson®). The product was 
bright yellow, with an odour of aniseed and terpenes and had the following constants: — _ 
d2> 0.8542, [«]p + 35.75°. Sixty per cent. of the oil first distilled over at 37 to 40° 
(3 mm.). By repeated fractional distillation Nelson found that 85 per cent. of the pee 
duct consisted of a terpene fraction, which after rectification over sodium had the 
following properties: — b. p. 169 to 171° (ordinary pressure), d®2 0.8507, [elp + 46.49. 
The fraction polymerised easily on warming, had on odour of phellandrene and formed a 
nitrosite m.p. 103 to 104°, according to which §-phellandrene was present. From 
the higher boiling: component anethole was isolated. On distillation a resinous residue 
was left behend, probably polymerised phellandrene. a é eee 
be, See are are iene sia re 
Sandalwood Oil, East Indian. —E. W. Cotton gives a series of statistical information — 
ve East Indian sandalwood and sandalwood oil in the recently published “Handbook — 
of Commercial Information for India”. In Mysore and Coorg all sandalwood trees BL 
are Government property. Private ownership is indeed recognised in Madras, but as a P 
matter of fact the sandalwood production is practically a monopoly of the Forest Authorities. . % 
The amount obtained from the three provinces and offered for public sale amounted | 
on an average to 2500 to 3000 tons on the year. To this must be added the needs’ 
There were sold in Mysore : 
1008/09... 2114 tons Of 2 value of 2 7OOUd: 
FOL TFs oie We RGB ies Nas fe dee em 
eh bp panera) | SMe uree Dadh e Mieieaiee Toy. 70 
The price increase in the year 1912 was a result of German competition in She ’ 
buying. As the Germans were absent in 1914 the sale had no success, and only Ati j 7 
the next auction were 2000 tons sold at 4 113300—as a consequence of American — 
purchases — supposed to be partly on account of the Germans. When the auction — 
took place in the following year, i.e. 1916, the factory in Bangalore had just been 4 
opened. Although only 1347 tons were disposed of by sale, a sum of £ 153300 was © 
obtained, a sum from which resulted a considerable rising in the price of sandalwood 5 
oil on the London market. Since then the auctions ceased. The amounts of sandal- ‘ 
wood sold in Madras, which are not more explicitly given, had ‘1913/14 a valug: 
£ 10000, 1917/18 of ¥ 35000. 
There were sold in Coorg (pel) a a ee eae 
1914/15. eo Batons of: a valde 821 Gob ae ai ae 
LOTS /16 ooo a eS Ete DO ae eae 5) 23980 
1917/18) BOO eg 85 O00 ae 
3) Ohem. Ztg. 48 (1919), 747. ! 
to 570. — #) As per Index Kewensis. 6 oe English Note ubiowh pee is written, 
chem.. Soc. 42 (1920), 1286. ig bud 
