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gen, "Nlathematische Annalen" of Leivsic a nd Bulletin o'f the Calcutta Mathematical Society. The years of publica tion of t hese papers ronge fro m 1904 to 1913. (4) Text·books on' (i) Differentia l Cal· cutus, (ii) Integral Calculu s, nnd (iii) Co· ordinate Geometry. "Mr. C. V, Raman, to whom the Univer· sity have, Oil their own initiative, offered the Sir Tnraknath Palit Professorshi(l of Physics, graduated from t he Madras Umversity in 1904 a t the early age of sixt een, receiving a first class a nd head ing the Jist for the year in Science. Two ycars la ter he took hig M. A. degree, being the first in the history of that University to receive B first class in t he experimenta l sciences for the degree. He was nom inated as a candid ate for the Indian Finance Depart. ment and standing first in the competitive examination, received an a pPOIntment in June 1907. Mr. Raman is now just over 25 yea rs of age and has rendered nearly seven yea rs' ser vice in t he Fina nce Department. To ena ble him t n accept the ouer now made to him Bnd dcyote his lifc to resenrch, he has li t a sacrifice to relin_ quisb hilCa.n:cr in adepartment which is the

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very best paid onc under Government not monopolised by the 1. C. S., a nd in which ht! might in the ord ina ry course after 15 Or 18 years additiona l service ha ve risen to a nd held the rauk of Accountant-General. "Mr. Raman's earliest contributions to Science appeared in the P!JiJosopbicsJ Magazine while he was an M. A. student. Since then he has been strenuously devoting himself to scientific research in the scanty leisure left to him after the day'. work in office. The faci lities generously aflorded to him by the authorities of the Indian A8IIocia ttan for the Cultivation of Science enable him to do this while a t Calcutta. and during the three years he was stationed elsewhere (partly in Burmab and partly in Nagpur) he w orked in his o wn home with apparatus loaned to him by the A88Ocia_ t ion. He hall published a series of 28 papen dea ling with his researches principally in Optics and Acoustics. In Optics Mr. Raman bas worked in the field of the DifFractioa of Ligbt and hal brougbt to light a 'QCW class of Diffraction and In~ phenomena in which 'an obliquitl e&ct' 'e shown a nd be bas su<X."ft'ded 1D eIacidating and meallnlring the obliqaity..t.etor