. 
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all primaries havin 
In this 
placements in Telative motion. 
exvi Proceedings of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, [N.S., XVII. 
but our Lear is very slow: for it is dominated by exiguous 
budgets 
Smell.—By E. R. Watson. 
The investigation was unde “sa abe the object of finding a method 
to classify and describe smells in a scientific manner. 
t was known that some atte substances, e.g. hydrochloric pica’ 
and formaldehyde, form chemical compounds with proteids, and it w 
thought that the perception of o ht in all cases be t i 
al reaction a the odorous substance and the proteid of the 
olfactory organ. o che 3 te) n 8 
a on or even absor 
detected on shaking pe powdered albumen with alcoholic solutions of 
various oda orous substances, e.g. eth pao citronellal, pyridine, acetic 
n i i ined by di i 
a © nce. 
: § was expected on theoretical grounds it was also found that the 
intensity of smell was proportional to the ‘esol. of the odorous 
substance from aqueous solution by animal charcoal. 
Services with regular increments of salaries.—By K. RB. 
Mapwava. 
With respect to maintaining in Government service an eS ne 
up to a certain strength, under regular increments of salar 
scale, the questions as to the number of annual ee ma 
supe meted tel seta paid to office saa pens s, as salaries 
ns, etc., red, under gaitabie hypotheses, By mathema- 
and pens 
tic ivaiiie pasa easly he Peseta of Life contingencie 
The ais are Loci‘of Algebraic Curves —By A.N. Rao. 
The pa ms at studying the s seers an of Orthoptic loci and 
thus bringing stile the purview of a general theory, all the scattered 
results abou it the orthopties of particu ar ar cues Singularities : both of 
‘ ord points 
inary ”’ curv 
are studied in detail. Ther section on _ Deg acy of the 
Orthoptic, and another on the inverse problem of the Aotarwiniaion of 
ga give: e for their Orthoptic loci. The papey 
concludes with some intaneeting a spolieatigns to envelopes. 
The principle of Déppler and the time perspective.—-By 
S. C. Kar. 
1s paper Agate is attempted of the exact law of spectral dis- 
thus shown that the usual state- 
i 
oa 
with ce of a relative velocity is generally erroneous. - 
remarkable result is deduced by iti ii — shag tha ob- 
inary and Hee stellar periods y tea a shift 
