400 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS of Dr. A. W. Middleton, the Society's Honorary Editor, in publishing three issues of the Journal in the Society's year, thus, with the American Society's four issues, giving the members seven journal issues in the period. Unfor- tunately, owing to the pressure of business, his services would not be available after the July issue, and Mr. W. R. Littlejohn had agreed to carry out the onerous duties of Honorary Editor. Both Dr. Middleton and he were certain that the journal would be in competent and skilful hands, and they trusted that members would support Mr. Littlejohn by submitting scientific matter for publication. The Society's thanks were also due to Mr. Holmes who, in his capacity of advertising manager, had kept the Journal's finances on a sound basis, and to Mr. F. Riley, the Honorary Secretary, for his work, and particularly for the interesting News-Letters which he had circulated. The Educational Course held at Acton Technical College was making steady progress under Dr. K. G. Johnson's guidance. The third year of the course had been made possible by the help of specialist lecturers, most of whom were members of the Society, and the first examination for the Society's Diploma would be held at the end of the summer session in June. The Honorary Treasurer, Mr. H. J. Lovell, then presented the balance sheet and accounts. The satisfactory state of the financial affairs was appreciated, and the report accepted unanimously. The Council had given considerable attention to the desirability of revising the phraseology and arrangement of the Rules, at the same time suggesting some minor changes. Dr. R. H. Marriott had been the chairman of the sub- committee dealing with this matter, although Mr. F. Riley and Dr. A. W. Middleton had also made important contributions to the work. The revised rules now before the meeting had been submitted to a lawyer for his criticism, and they embodied his suggestions where they were of a legal nature. The principal changes were to make the conditions of full membership of the Society more stringent to permit those not qualified to be members of the Society, but whose connection with it would advance the objects of the Society, to be admitted as Affiliates, whose rights and obligations were de- fined and to clarify the Society's rights to suspend or remove members. After considerable discussion, the proposed rules, with three amendments, were accepted unanimously. Before vacating the chair for the election of officers and of three members of Council, Mr. Dobson made a few personal observations, saying: "I should like to take this opportunity of expressing my appreciation for the co-operation given to me by all officers and members of the Council during my year of office. "Although all officers and members have been most helpful, I trust that I may, without minimising the efforts of others, specially mention our Past President, Dr. Marriott, our Honorary Secretary, Mr. Riley, and our Honorary Editor, Dr. Middleton.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 401 "Dr. Marriott, as Chairman of the Constitution and Rules Committee, has worked extremely hard on drawing up the new rules and, although much hard work has also been done in committee, it would not have been possible for the new constitution and rules of the Society to be placed before this meeting to-day without the time, energy and thought given to this matter in the first place by Dr. Marriott. It is with deep regret that I heard Dr. Marriott would not be standing for election to the 1956/7 Council. He has contributed so much over the past four years to the progress of this Society that his retirement from active office will be a real loss. Nevertheless, I am hopeful that he may return at a later date to again be actively engaged in the affairs of this Society and say to him now that, should that time come, he will be more than welcome. "Mr. Riley has proved an invaluable help to me over the last year and I sincerely trust that he will be able to continue as our Honorary Secretary for many years to come, as we should no doubt find it difficult to secure anyone else with such a capacity for hard work and with such a keen interest in the Society's affairs. "We shall experience a real loss when Dr. Middleton retires as Honorary Journal Editor after the July issue, and I take this opportunity of per- sonally thanking him for the excellent job of work he has carried out. At the same time, I welcome Mr. Littlejohn, who I am sure will continue to uphold the future British editions of the Journal so that we may all be proud of this publication. "Finally, not only to Dr. Marriott, Mr. Riley and Dr. Middleton, but to all other officers and members of the Council, I say, thank you indeed for the splendid support you have given me during my first year of office and, in particular, to those members of Council retiring, namely, Mr. Avis, Mr. Bather, Mr. Pepper, I would give a special word of thanks for your help and co-operation." The meeting appointed Mr. E. Polan and Mr. S. Townsend as scrutineers for the counting of the postal ballot votes for members of Council. The chair was then taken by Mr. J. Pickthall, who had pleasure in declaring that Mr. R. T. Dobson, President Mr. J. Pickthall, Vice-President Mr. F. Riley, Hon. Sec. and Mr. H. J. Lovell, Hon. Treasurer, were elected unopposed, and Drs. H. W. Hibbott, W. Mitchell, and W. W. Myddleton were elected to fill the Council vacancies. Mr. E. Polan was unable to continue to be the Society's Hon. Auditor and the meeting elected Mr. A. W. English to carry out these duties, at the same time thanking Mr. Polan for the attention that, first as Hon. Treasurer and recently as Hon. Auditor, he had given to the Society's affairs continuously'since its foundation. The meeting concluded with a discussion concerning the most popular evening of the week on which to hold scientific meetings: the outcome was that Friday was the selected evening.