BRITISH SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS 621 The featured speaker at the November 28th meeting was the President of the Soc•E•'¾, George G. Kolar. Mr. Kolar gave his impression of the type of cosmetics the industry will be marketing and producing in the future, the title of his talk being, "t.ooking into the Future." BRITISH SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS A s•,Ec•^g. Council Meeting was held on October 10th during Mr. M. G. deNavarre's visit to England. Mr. J. Pickthall, vice-president, in the absence of Mr. R. T. Dobson, president, welcomed Mr. deNavarre to the meeting. Matters pertinent to the two Societies and Journal arrange- ments were discussed. Many mutual problems were solved which will make for still closer cooperation between the British and the U.S. Societies. On December 7th Dr. J. H. Schulman spoke on "The Behaviour of Proteins at Interfaces." Dr. Schulman is a University lecturer at Cam- bridge and is one of the leading authorities on surface activity. The scientific meetings will continue through the winter months of 1957 with Dr. H. W. Hibbott being the first speaker on January 4th, presenting a paper on "Particle Size of Powders in Cosmetics." Dr. Hibbott is the chief chemist of Goya, Ltd., and a Member of the Council. Mr. I. Green- field will speak on February 1st on "The Use of Polyvinylpyrrolidone in Cosmetics and Toilet Preparations." The speaker on March 1st will be Dr. T. R. E. Kressman with a talk on "Ion Exchange Resins." Plans are being made for the Annual Dinner and Dance to be held on January 18th at the Care Royal, Regent Street, London W. 1. More de- tails will be announced at a later date. The education courses which the Society is sponsoring in conjunction with the college authorities at Acton Technical College are underway for the 1956-1957 session. Classes are held on two evenings a week and comprise First, Second and Third Year Courses. On completion of the Third Year Course the Society's examination is given and on the results of this, the Society's Diploma is awarded. At the examination held last June the following candidates were awarded the Diploma: F. W. Bellairs, (Miss) E. Champion, R. Matthews, F. $. Peet and R. A. Sinclair.

BOOK REVIEWS CHEMICAL SAFETY SUPERVISION, by Joseph Guelich. Reinhold Pub- lishing Corp., New York 22, N.Y. 1956. 221 pages, 6 X 9 inches, illustrated and indexed. Price $4.50. This book is valuable for the small companies who manufacture, use or handle chemicals and do not have an active safety program in effect. It is primarily intended for supervisors and foremen as an aid in teaching nontechnical personnel chemical safety and accident pre- vention. The book is easily read and touches on nearly all phases of chemical safety, i.e., production, handling and laboratory. It is not the complete story of safety in the chemical field. However, it is an excellent checkback for a safety program already in action and a practical plan for initiating a safety program to be enlarged upon as needed.--RuTH WINTERS, John H. Breck, Inc. many contributed data by experts. The principal contributor is Wolf- gang F. van Oettingen with the technical assistance of William O. Negherbon with twenty-eight addi- tional contributors or reviewers. The present volume is the first of five, each dealing with specific facets of toxicology. This volume covers acute toxicities of solids, liquids and gases to laboratory animals. The first compound considered is abo- bioside and the last is zirconyl sul- fate. Thus for propylene glycol one finds an oral LD50 for the rat of 21,000 mg./kg. for the guinea pig 18,900 mg./kg. and for the rabbit 19,200, while the oral LDs,, for glycerin for the rat is 27,500 mg./kg. for the guinea pig 7750 mg./kg. and for the rabbit 26,460 mg./kg. This is a very valuable and use- ful assembly of toxicological data. Every technically minded man in the cosmetic industry will need this volume and the ones to follow-- M. G. DENAVARRE. HANDBOOK OF TOXICOLOGY, Vol- ume I, edited by William S. Spec- tor. W. B. Saunders Co., Phila- delphia, Pa. 1956. 408 pages, 81/2 X 11 inches, indexed. Price $7.00. This handbook, and it is a hand- book, was prepared under the direc- tion of a special committee of the National Research Council. It is essentially a tabular presen- tation of toxicological data prepared under an Aero Medical Laboratory contract. It is a compilation of COMPREHENSIVE INOaGANIC CHEM- iSTRY, Volume V, edited by E. C. Sneed and R. C. Brasted. D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., Princeton, N.J. 1956. 214 pages, 6 X 9 inches, in- dexed and illustrated. Price $5.00. The fifth in this series, the present volume is divided into three chap- ters. Chapters 1 and 2 cover Nitro- gen, Phosphorus, Arsenic, Anti- mony and Bismuth they are autNored by H. H. Sisler. The third chapter on reactions in non- 622