146 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS Marston Taylor Bogert AT THE AGE OF eighty-five years, Col. Marston T. Bogerr, first Medal- ist of the SOCIETY or COSMETIC CHEMISTS, died on March 21, 1954, of pneu- monia. Dr. Bogerr began his career in 1894 and retired from teaching at Colum- bia University in 1939, after forty-five years on the faculty. During World War I he was at the head of the Chemical Warfare Service of the Army with the rank of Colonel. Dr. Bogerr was honored many times here and abroad. He was recipient of the Perkin, Nichols and Priestly medals, twice president of the American Chemical Society, and became a member of the SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS shortly after its inception and its first Medalist in 1948. The Journal, 1,268 (1949) lists his numerous honors, memberships, and accom- plishments. Many in this industry were his students. Dr. Bogerr is survived by two married daughters, Mrs. F. B. Tallman and Mrs. F. K. Huber. Daniel L. Couch AT THE AGE OF sixty-nine, Daniel L. Couch, associated for over twenty-five years with the Elizabeth Arden Sales Corporation, died at his home in Queens, N. ¾. Born in Devon, England, in 1885, he came to the United States about the time of World War I. He was active in scientific circles, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Arts, American In- stitute of Chemists, the Canadian Institute of Chemists and of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists. Mr. Couch is survived by his wife, Mrs. Edith Whirbread Couch, and a son Denys. Ronald Murray Hamilton AN OVERSEAS MEMBER of the SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS, Mr. Ham{Itoh, at the age of forty, d{ed as a result of a fatal automobile acc{dent on December 31, 1953, at Victoria, Australia. In the Second World War he served with the Armed Services. Mr. Hamilton was factory manager at Chesebrough Manufacturing Company, Consolidated, at the time of his death. Earlier he had been in charge of production at Pond's in Australia. He was a member of the Society of Public Analysts of Great Britain and other societies. He is survived by his wife and three children.

BOOK REVIEWS DICTIONARY OF ORGANIC COM- POUNDS. Editors-in-Chief Sir Ian Heilbron and H. M. Banbury. Vol- ume I, Abadole-Cytosine, 654 pages Volume II, D. A. Hystazarin, 845 pages Volume III, Ibogaine-NW- Acid, 838 pages Volume IV, Obac- ulactone - Zymosterol, 694 pages. Size 71/2 X 101/2 inches, Oxford Uni- versity Press, New York 11, N.Y., 1953. Price $78 per set. It took four volumes in place of the earlier three, to list all the material through 1950 and some including early 1953, over 2500 new entries in all. This is a completely revised new edition. When it takes two editors, two assistant editors, and twenty-one contributors in addition to .the two editors-in-chief, one can visualize th.e.magnitude of this work, com- prlslng almost 3000 pages in all. One quickly recognizes the im- mensity of the authors efforts .similarly 9he admits how difficult it is to review so vast a literature, though admittedly it is far easier than to compose what is being read. To say that all of the pages were looked at or read would be untrue. Instead hundreds of pages were scanned and sporadically checked for proofreaders errors, but none were found. As for the individual entries, it is always easy to find fault, for the authors must have had tuite a problem in deciding what to eave out, not what to include. In the vein of constructive suggestion, this reviewer suggests the inclusion in future revisions of monographs on cetyl trimethylammonium bromide, methyl heptine carbonate, methyl nonyl acetaldehyde, polyethylene glycols and derivatives, thioglycerin, pantothenol, ethylene diaminetetra- acetic acid, polyvinyl alcohol, and polyvinylpyrrolidone. In addition, •t would make the text more com- plete to include the ammonium, so- dium, and calcium salts of thiogly- colic acid (other similar salts are mentioned under some captions) and of alginic acid. Under ursolic acid, a main commercial source today is cranberry waste products. Among the new chemicals in- cluded are mannitol hexanitrate sorbitol and some of its esters many esters of lauric, myristic, palmitic, oleic and stearic acids, including their respective alcohols and dike- tones thiomalic, usnic, and evernic acids propylene glycol and many esters D.C.M.X. and D.C.M.C. heliotropin a-amylcinnamic aide- hyde nerol, santalol, and eugenol and derivatives. This will give an idea of the wide coverage. Compound listings include physi- cal and chemical properties, deriva- tives which often should be ex- panded, together with the best method of preparation of the listed compound. Here again, some of the methods could be brought still more up to date, although the listed references will give the results ex- pected. There are numerous references to the perfumery literature, although no cosmetic references were seen. The editors follow a well laid out 147