Bulletin of the Imperial Institute

Bulletin of the Imperial Institute, Vol. 1-46, 1903-48. Imperial Institute, South Ken-... 

Cohune-nut oil is produced from the nuts of the cohune palm, which flourishes in British Honduras. This oil closely resembles cocoa-nut and palm-nut oils and is stated to saponify readily and yield a soap free from odour. The following figures, obtained in the Laboratory of the Imperial Institute, are recorded in the official Bulletin, 1903, p. 25 —... 

Richard Koebner, The Imperial Crown of this Realm Henry VIII, Constantine the Great, and Polydore YergH , Bulletin of the Institute ofHistoricalResearch 25 (1953), p. 32. 

A sample of bay oil from Fiji, examined at the Imperial Institute in 1909, differed considerably from ordinary commercial bay oil. The oil was pale brown, and had the characteristic odour of bay oil, with, in addition, a distinct anise-like odour. On examination it furnished the following constants Specific gravity at 15 C., 0 961 optical rotation in 100 mm. tube at 20 C., - 1 58. The oil was soluble in its own volume or more of 90 per cent, alcohol, and contained only 23 per cent, of phenols instead of the 60 per cent, found in good bay oil, and was unusually rich in methyl ethers. In view of recent investigations recorded in the Kew Bulletin it seems probable that the Fiji sample consisted of oil derived from the leaves of the form of Pimenta acris known as Bois d Inde Anise . 

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