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Power, F. B., and Lees, F. H. The Constituents of the Essential Oil of California Laurel. Journal of the Chemical Society, London, vol. 85, 1904, pt. 1, pp. 629-639.

Schimmel & Co., Semiannual Report, October, 1894, p. 38.

Power, F. B., and Kleber, C. The Constituents of American Peppermint Oil, and a Method for the Quantitative Determination of Menthol. Pharmaceutische Rundschau, vol. 12, 1894, pp. 157-165.

Wallach, O. Zur Kenntniss der Terpene und der ätherischen Oele. Justus Liebig’s Annalen der Chemie, vol. 252, 1889, pp. 94-157.

Janse, J. M. Le Dryobalanops Aromatica Gaertn. et le Camphre de Borneo. Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg, supplement 3, pt. 2, 1910, pp. 947-961.

Auwers, K. Zur Darstellung der Oxime. Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft, vol. 22, 1889, pp. 604-607.

Michaelis, A., and Erdmann, G. Ueber die Thionylamine der Amidoazoverbindungen und der Naphtylendiamine. Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft, vol. 28, 1895, pt. 2, pp. 2192-2204.

Wallach, O. Zur Kenntniss der Terpene. Justus Liebig’s Annalen der Chemie, vol. 245, 1888, p. 251.

Pharmacopœia of the United States, 8th decennial revision, 1900, p. 313.

Rabak, Frank. On Several New Artemisia oils. Pharmaceutical Review, vol. 23, 1905, pp. 128-129.

Ibid., vol. 24, 1906, pp. 324-325.

This fraction distilled largely between 170° and 175° C.

Wallach, O. Zur Kenntniss der Terpene und der ätherischen Oele. Justus Liebig’s Annalen der Chemie, vol. 272, 1892, p. 102.

Ibid., p. 104.

To prevent clogging of the condenser with crystals, the jacket of the condenser was deprived of the cold water, and steam passed through, the melted crystals passing over. The crystals immediately reappeared in the fractions upon cooling.

Gildemeister, Eduard, and Hoffmann, Friedrich. Translated by Edward Kremers. The Volatile Oils, p. 528.

Transcriber’s Notes

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