lOO 
Santalol. This product, which, as is well known, was first intro- 
duced into commerce by us, finds a fairly large application, but it is 
already sold at prices which are directly unremunerative if the manu- 
facture is carried on with care. 
Terpineol. The enormous prices of American oil of turpen- 
tine have caused a hardening of the quotations of terpineol. In 
Austria the import -duty for this product has been raised to i/6d. 
per kilo, and as a consequence we now manufacture it at our Boden- 
bach works. 
Thymol. The ridiculously cheap quotations of this article do 
not call for comment in order to characterise the situation which in 
this case also has been brought about by overproduction. At the 
same time, the price of the crude material is not correspondingly lower, 
and especially during the last few months rather firmer. 
The following statistics show that the prices of thymol have never 
been as low as at this moment. 
We quoted: 
on I April 1894 
„ „ 1895 
I 
1897 
I 
I 
1900 
1901 
1902 
18 marks per kilo 
18 „ „ 
13.50,, 
13.50.. 
22 
16 
.. 1903- 13 .. 
The prices of ajowan - seed (from which thymol is produced) 
usually depend on the sanitary conditions in the producing country, 
British India. They were always highest during epidemics of bubonic 
plague and cholera. If this factor is taken into account, the hygienic 
condition in India should at present be normal. 
Battandier^) reports on a new occurrence of thymol. He found 
that the essential oil of a plant which grows in the mountainous region 
of Algeria, Origanum floribu7idum Munby (O. cinereum de Noe), when 
extracted with alkali, yields one-fourth of its volume to the latter. The 
separated phenol crystallises almost completely when a thymol crystal 
is brought into contact with it, and consequently consists chiefly of 
^) Journ. de pharm. et de chim. VI. 16 (1902), 536. 
