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influence; most of the products which come under consideration have 
thriven well. 
We have again added as an Appendix to this Report the following 
interesting work: — 
On the pharmaco- therapeutics of the Aethereo - oleosa, 
by 
Professor Dr. R. Kobert, 
Director of the Institute for Pharmacology and Physiological Chemistry, 
University of Rostock. 
We are greatly indebted to Professor Kobert for thus adding to 
the value of our Reports. 
Almond oil, bitter. In the peculiar situation created for this 
article by the artificial products free from chlorine, only those can 
fully guarantee a pure natural product who manufacture it themselves. 
There are no certain means for detecting an admixture of benzalde- 
hyde, free from chlorine. In harmony with this state of affairs, the 
quotations for "genuine" oil also differ from each other, and if there 
is a case where cheap offers should not be an inducement for buying, 
it is with this oil. Whoever requires a cheap oil should buy the 
reliable genuine distillate, and cheapen it himself by a proportionate 
admixture of benzaldehyde free from chlorine, instead of purchasing 
from the second hand, for the sake of a difference in the price of 
a few shillings per lb., an oil which does not carry the slightest 
guarantee. Quite recently an oil was again submitted to our testing- 
laboratory, which showed a powerful chlorine-reaction, in spite of the 
fact that it was sold as genuine oil. Here it was therefore not even 
considered necessary to supply an oil free from chlorine, and a pro- 
duct of the most common quality, having a value of 3 marks per kilo, 
had been substituted. 
Apricot - kernels form the principal raw material for oil of bitter 
almonds, and there is every justification for this, as the essential oil 
does not differ in any way from that made from bitter almonds, and 
provides a decidedly cheaper substitute. 
Almond Oil, pressed from apricot^kernels. The apricot- 
• harvest in Syria has given a good result. The yield is estimated at 
about 4000 bales of 100 kilos, or say 400 000 kilos, and moderate 
prices are anticipated. Owing to firm purchases we are in a position 
