278 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS Temporary Binding Cases For the convenience of Members who keep their current numbers of the Journal, the Society has arranged for a supply of special binding cases to be made available. The cases, as illustrated, are of durable green leather cloth with stiff covers, and suitably inscribed n gold-blocked lettering on the spine. They will hold firmly a year's issues of the Journal, will open flat at any point, and the copies can be inserted without needing to be punched or defaced, thus leaving them undamaged for permanent binding if required. Members who retain their Journals for reference purposes should find this binder of great service as a temporary holder. Permanent binding covers for complete volumes of the Journal will continue to be supplied. The cost of the case is 15s. 6d., post paid orders, with remittances, should be sent direct to the manufacturers--Easibind, Ltd., 84, Newman Street, London, W. 1, and NOT to the Society. SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN British Congress of Cosmetic Science T•E CONCI•ESS, which opened in London on the evening of 15th April, 1959, started off in a very happy mood. It was most satisfying to see delegates from Belgium, Denmark, Eire, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, India, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. It was, perhaps, a little unfortunate that the American contingent fell far below its expected numbers through a series of misfortunes. Mr. S. F. Coneybear was suddenly taken ill, Dr. Donald H. Powers, who was to lecture, was also taken ill, and two or three others suddenly found that their business commitments pre- vented their attendance. However, mention might be made of Mr. Gui Dony, Mr. P. Velon, Mrs. Pirkko Ollila, Mrs. Milias, Mr. Erik Thomsen, Mr. Bjarne Borud and, of course, Ed deNavarre, Bob Kramer and Mr. Strianse. There was an attendance of 250 at the Cocktail Party and everybody immediately found friends and felt at home. The opening day of the Congress turned out to be bad in respect of the weather. It more or less rained continuously throughout the whole day and, to this extent, marred the excursion to Luton Hoo planned for the ladies. For those at the Congress, where the attendance was well over 200. the weather was of no importance and it would be true to say that right

SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN 279 from the very opening lecture given by Dr. Van den Dool, it was clear that the proceedings would go with a swing. The able planning of the sequence of questions by the Chairman of the Congress was admirable, so much so that at no time during the two days was there ever a blank minute. The morning session was taken over by Dr. Max Stoll of Switzerland when papers dealing with essential oils were the topic. For the second session Mr. M. G. deNavarre ably took charge in place of Mr. Coneybear. To him thanks are extended for taking over this onerous task at the last minute. The subjects covered were product evaluation: Consumer testing (laboratory and panel and dermatological). Friday was a much more pleasant day for the excursion to Knole. It was interesting to note that the attendance at the lectures was fully main- tained. The papers dealt with manufacturing processes---heat transfer, corrosion and filtration. At the last minute, the Session Chairman, Mr. Strianse, was taken ill and Dr. H. Heinrich of U.S.A. very kindly consented to take over the job. He did this extremely well and is to be congratulated. All the papers received great consideration by the members of the Congress and the questions and discussions were very importan and instructive. At the afternoon session, the attendance was greater than ever, many people having come armed with comments for Professor Bullough's lecture. However, the lecturer was to be congratulated in so far as he calmed the impending storm of protest by proceeding in his opening remarks to give answers to many of the questions which were down for discussion. The nett result of this was that the comments made were quite lively, very much to the point and, indeed, most instructive, but within a quieter atmosphere than had been expected. The Chairman of this session was Dr. H. W. Hibbott, who is the Vice-President of the British Society. And at the end, it was quite apparent that everyone had enjoyed the business part of the Congress. This was shown clearly in the general atmo- sphere at the Congress Dinner which was, in ordinary press parlance, sold out. There were no vacant seats and everybody enjoyed the evening. Short speeches were given by a member of each of the overseas countries and at the close of the evening all participants parted good friends and with happy memories of an interesting occasion. R.H.M. Annual General Meeting The Eleventh Annual General Meeting was held at 55 Park Lane on Friday, 22nd May 1959 at 7.0 p.m. The President, Dr. R. H. Marriott, was in the Chair.