GESELLSCHAFT DEUTSCHER KOSMETIK-CHEMIKER Officers of the German Society for 1959-1960 (left to right) Dr. B. Storp, Secretary Dr. H. Neugebauer, President Dr. F. Keil, Treasurer. ELEVENTH MEDAL AWARD December 2, 1959 Hotel Commodore, New York City DR. WILLIAM S. GUMP, Research Associate of The Givaudan Cor- poration and its subsidiary, Sindar Corporation, received the 1959 Medal Award ooe the Society ooe Coslnetic Chemists at the Annual Dinner Dance held at the Hotel Commodore on December 2, 1959. The award was given to Dr. Gump in recognition ooe his outstanding contributions to the art and science ooe cosmetics which included the development ooe hexachlorophene. Mr. R. E. Horsey, Vice-President in Charge ooe Sales ooe Givaudan- Delawanna, Inc., acted as eulogist oeor the rnedalist and spoke briefly ooe Dr. Gump's personal and prooeessional accomplishments. The complete Medal Award Story will appear in a later issue. 114

BOOK REVIEWS THE CHEMICAL BEHAVIOR Or ZIR- COtqIVM, by W. B. Blumenthal. D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., Princeton, N.J. 1958. 425 pages, illustrated and indexed, size 6 X 9 inches. Price $11. The author who has written on the subject considerably has brought all of his knowledge and skill coupled with what has been done by others into co. mpact yet detailed account of zirconram chemistry. Both early and recent literature have been covered. Zirconlure has been con- sidered "as an element and as a com- ponent of compounds, interstitial so- lutions and alloys." The subject is surveyed in nine chapters, starting with the element zirconium and ending with organic compounds of zirconlure other than carboxylates. A two line sentence reviews the three patents granted on its usefulness in deodorants. But if you do not know the inventors' names, it will take quite a bit of searching to find these on page 333. The index is quite inadequate and will hamper the use of this valuable reference, the first text on zirconlure since Veneble's book appeared in 1922. The vast literature and pat- ent examination is an endless time saver. A casual check of the text failed to find any errors in spelling or in- dexing. The book is a recommended ref- erence on zirconium chemistry.-- M. G. DENAVARRE. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHEMISTRY SUPPLEMENT, by George L. Clark and G. G. Hawley. Reinhold Pub- lishing Corp., New York 22, N.Y. 1958. 330 pages, size 10•/4 X 7 inches, indexed. Price $10. An additional 200 articles on chemical subjects are intended to make the "Encyclopedia" which appeared a year earlier, the most complete chemical encyclopedia published. The style here is the same as in the earlier volume, alphabetical by subject. The first item is "acidim- etry and alkalimerry," the last is "zone refining." Though the jacket of the book states that no further volumes are to be added, this reviewer finds it difficult to believe this. For the present supplement complements the earlier volume as subsequent additions will enhance existing one. Though there is a wide variety of subject matter included between both volumes, there are still nu- merous voids. This is due to the overlapping of disciplines today. It is no longer a question of whether one is a chemist, but what particular kind of chemist. Even Chemical ztbstracts recognizes over thirty dif- ferent divisions. But to men{ion a few voids--pharmaceutical and cosmetic preservatives (food pre- servatives are discussed in the second volume) sunscreens (al- though a brief discussion of ultra- violet absorbers is given) dextrins 115