The German Adulteration Bill

Adulteration in Rose oil

The genus Rosa Linn. (Rosaceae) is widely distributed in the temperate parts of the northern hemisphere and on tropical mountains. About 20 species and hundreds of varieties have been recorded in India in wild state and many have been introduced for cultivation as ornamentals. Mostly hybrid varieties exhibit a marked fragrance and are suitable for the extraction of Rose water and Rose oil (atta...

The Drug Control Bill

The Senate Bill

As the crafting of new legislation becomes a drawn-out process, compromises eventually e m e rge, and the resulting proposals often appear to be portions of various proposals spliced together. Such is the case with a farm bill proposal approved Sept. 28 in the Senate Committee on A g r i c u l t u re, Nutrition, and Forestry. As of this writing, the specific language of the bill was being devel...

Footing the bill.

When the discussion turns to the creation of a European Research Council (ERC), a series of questions spring to mind. Answering some of them is now almost trivial—for example, “Why is an ERC needed and timely?”— whereas the answers to others, being more political, are certainly more difficult to envisage for most practising scientists. This is notably the case for the questions: “Who will be th...

The Mental Treatment Bill

The Mental Treatment Bill was introduced into the House of Lords on November 19th, 1929, and was read a third time in that House and the first time in the House of Commons before the Christmas holidays. The Government may be congratulated on the promptitude with which it has directed its attention to this matter and still more on the broadminded attitude which it has adopted in translating the ...