56 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS This book is one which will occupy for many years to come a position of honour amongst the literature on fats, and one in which any chemist seeking for information on the subject will find all that he needs. DAS GROSSE REZEPTBUCH DER HAUT-UND K/JRPERPFLEGEMIT- TEL. By K^RI. ROTUEM^NN. Second Edition revised and enlarged with the collaboration of Gustav A. Nowak. Published by Dr. Alfred Hiithig Verlag, Heidelberg. Price 38 DM. 592 pages. TUE fact that a second edition of this well-known German book on cosmetics is called for within the space of ten years is evidence of its useful and practical character. In the preparation of the second edition the author has been fortunate to be able to call upon the wide and versatile knowledge of Gustav Nowak. The result is that a thorough revision has taken place and the text has been brought up to date. The book is divided into three parts. The first part, comprising about one-tenth of the book, is concerned with biological materials such as vitamins and amino acids and also with medicinal plants and their use in cosmetics. Some ten pages in this section deal with hor- mones and their applications in cosmetics. The second part of the book deals with the raw materials of cosmetics. A detailed description is given of such bodies as fats and oils, waxes, colours, chemicals, drugs, auxiliary materials followed by sections on new raw materials and accessories, preserva- tives, the perfuming of cosmetic preparations and skin injury. The glossary of raw materials is alphabetically arranged and under each the synonyms are given, followed by the source, method of extraction, physical and chemical properties and its applications in cosmetics. In the section on new materials accounts are given of the new antibiotics, sun- screening agents and anti-enzyme preparations. The third part of the book covers some three hundred pages and is the most important part of the book, and the one which gives the book its practi- cal usefulness. It begins by discussing the planning of a laboratory and then goes on to discuss in turn the various classes of hair preparations such as brilliantines, hair fixatives, permanent waving, including the cold type, depilatories and hair dyes. The preparations for the skin are next discussed, commencing with soaps and cleansing creams, and following with creams, cold creams, night creams, liquid creams. Then follows a section on paints, nail preparations, mouth and teeth preparations, and shaving preparations. The book concludes with a directory of suppliers of raw materials and a very comprehensive index. In each case two or three practical formulas are given with actual working directions, stressing the errors to be avoided. The practical cosmeticfan will find that by using these formulas as a basis he will have at his command a set of modern products. The authors are to be congratulated on having carefully pruned the literature and from it selected the worth-while material and collected it together in a convenient practical form. This book can be confidently recommended as a laboratory companion for reference at all times.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT By GEORGE G. KOLAR TODAY, DECEMBER 13, 1956, we conclude the 11th year of our I SOCIETY'S existence. I am very happy to report, as President of the SOCIETY, that through I the diligent efforts of my fellow officers, Committee Chairmen and Commit- I tees, we have accomplished and performed what I hope will be considered •satisfactory progress in furthering the interests of the members and the ISoCIETY aS a whole. This evening, as you know, we are honoring our ninth recipient of the IMedal Award which is the highest honor that our SOCIETY can offer to any •scientist for outstanding contributions to the science and art of cosmetics. lout recipient this year, for the first time, will be a woman--one who has Iperformed ably in our SOCIETY as Chairman of the Library Committee for •several years. She is, as you know, Miss Florence E. Wall. Miss WaiFs •selection has been made by our past Medal Award winners, the Committee •of which is headed by Dr. Emil Klarmann, and includes Dr. Ernest Guen- Ither, William Poucher, Maison G. deNavarre and Dr. Everett McDonough. This year, we have also bestowed our eighth honorary membership which •was offered to Food & Drug Commissioner George P. Larrick. Also this year, we presented our second Special Award of $1000 for those Iliterary contributions which were felt to be of greatest value to our industry. IThe recipient of this Award was Dr. Walter P. Shelley of the Dept. of IDermatology at the University of Pennsylvania. It was through the able lefforts of your new President-Elect who was Chairman of this Committee, [[ames H. Baker, and Dr. Paul G. I. Lauffer, Chairman of the Literary IReview Committee, that this Program was brought to fulfillment. Our •new Chairman, who has taken over active direction of this Committee, is IH. J. Amsterdam. Dr. Lester Apperson will head the Literature Review ISub-Committee. Our third Seminar was likewise guided to a successful conclusion by our ISeminar Chairman and Director of the Board, Gabriel Barnett who acted iin this capacity for the third year. This year, we had 275 people registered Ifor these meetings. Next year the Board of Directors has decided that the ISeminar will be held in Chicago in recognition of that Chapter's 10th ,Anniversary year. 57