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August,  1920. 
his  impress  upon  the  organization.  He  has  established  an  attend- 
ance bonus  for  the  rank  and  file  of  employees  and  increased  the 
annual  vacation  allowance;  in  addition  he  has  provided  that  the 
older  employees  receive  a  cash  vacation  allowance  annually.  By 
one  means  or  another  he  has  impressed  his  personality  and  suc- 
ceeded in  increasing  the  enthusiasm  and  loyal  support  of  the  house 
by  everybody  concerned  therewith. 
In  a  recent  editorial  contibuted  to  the  Oil,  Paint  and  Drug  Re- 
porter, Mr.  Bartlett  demonstrates  that  he  is  an  optimist  and  has  no 
sympathy  with  the  calamity  howlers.  He  holds  that  there  is  no 
cause  for  the  alarmist  or  for  a  pessimistic  view  of  the  industrial  and 
financial  condition  in  the  United  States.  In  his  opinion  "There  is  not, 
at  the  present  time,  a  serious  cloud  on  the  horizon,  so  far  as  the  perma- 
nent future  prosperity  of  the  drug  industry  is  concerned." 
He  has  the  real  spirit  and  is  representative  of  the  type  of  men 
that  must  be  the  leaders  in  American  commerce. 
CURRENT  LITERATURE. 
SCIENTIFIC  AND  TECHNICAL  ABSTRACTS. 
Oiiv  OF  RuBiEVA  MUI.TIFIDA. — A  Specimen  of  the  essential  oil 
of  Rubieva  Multifida,  distilled  experimentally  by  the  W.  J.  Bush 
Citrus  Products  Company,  at  National  City,  California,  from  the 
wild  plants  growing  in  the  state,  was  examined. 
The  oil  is  light  yellow  in  color  and  has  an  odor  suggesting  anise 
and  terpenes.    dill  =  0.8542.     [a]^  =  +35.75°  (100  mm.  tube). 
On  the  first  distillation  about  60  per  cent,  comes  over  at  37-40° 
(under  3  mm.  pressure).  On  repeated  refractionation,  about  85 
per  cent,  of  the  oil  was  found  to  consist  of  a  terpene  fraction  which, 
after  rectifying  over  sodium,  boils  at  169-171°  (under  atmospheric 
pressure).    6^20°°  =  0.8507,  la]^  =  +46.4°  (100  mm.  tube). 
The  terpene  fraction  polymerizes  rapidly  on  boiling  at  atmo- 
spheric pressure,  has  an  odor  resembling  that  of  phellandrene,  and 
yields  a  nitrosite  melting  at  103-104°.  Hence  it  consists  largely  of 
/3-phellandrene, 
From  the  higher  boiling  portion  of  the  oil  anethole  was  separated. 
A  resinous  residue,  probably  polymerized  phellandrene,  was  left 
on  distillation.    E.  K.  Nelson,  Essential  Oils  Laboratory,  Drug 
