CITATION BY DONALD H. POWERS, PRESIDENT As the person, who is responsible for our coming to our present home-- the New York Academy of Sciences, As the one who has found for us a resting place for our library, As the woman who has stimulated our interest in wider research and new frontiers, As the person who has fostered our services to reduce and to rehire the unemployed, As the one who centralized our activities and co-ordinated our depart- ments, As the woman who has inspired us to newer and better achievements, --and who with all, has combined rare technical knowledge and under- standing with charm and grace and kindness, On behalf of the SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS, I am happy to present to you, Eunice Thomas Miner, our Sixth Honorary Membership, on this the ninth anniversary of our birth. •..•::• !• .: • .•- ß . • •": "v•':'•.• .• :-..L•.' .•..,: ..•' "•? • • .•.:. •:•.' '•:•...•.•:• ...... .?. :•...:•,• • Photo Courtesy of American Perruiner Dr. Roy Miner chats with accomplished wife, Dr. Eunice Miner, before the Honorary Membership Award. 138

ACCEPTANCE OF HONORARY MEMBERSHIP By EuNicE THOMAS MINEtk Director New York .dcademy of gciences, New York 2l, New York PRESIDENT POWERS, OFFICERS AND OTHER MEMBERS AND GUESTS OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS: { AM DEEPLY appreciative of the great honor which you have paid me in conferring upon me this Honorary Membership in your SOCIETY. I shall certainly exert myself to the utmost to merit this distinction. While I am not connected with cosmetics in any professional sense yet I am among those who have been devoted to the personal application of the many and varied pleasant products in your line. Naturally, when I was told that I was to make a short response address I began to read up on the history of cosmetics, of the industry itself, and the development of the field in scientific research. I was astonished at the extensive development of the literature and especially with the com- prehensive coverage in your own small but valuable library. Much has been written and you are all dxperts in the field so that there would be little which I might add except to suggest that your •OCIETY'S motto might state, with Vergil, "Dux femina facti!" for woman truly is the start and motive power for your activities. I am impressed with the realization that the activity curve in the field of cosmetics throughout the past centuries has been shaped and influenced more by fads and fashions and even the whimsies of the individuals than by the basic laws of sanitation and appreciation for beauty and charm of appearance but during the past thirty years a fundamental change has taken place, until today, the cosmetic industry has not only become one of the most important in the industrial picture in this country, but has also become essentially identified with the health and well-being of the in- dividual. Much of this fortunate result has been due to the intelligent develop- ment of cosmetics as a basic industry when it realized the necessity of call- ing upon the expert knowledge of the trained scientific mind. We not only see the results of this reliance upon the scientist, but his indentifica- tion with the cosmetic field and his desire for closer exchange of knowledge and experience has culminated finally in the organization of this SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS. 139