490 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS lems with the Japanese treatment using cepharantine Foldes' thesis of hair loss due to high salt content of body tissues placenta extracts plant hormone injections and nu- merous other unusual ways of grow- ing hair, all come in for review. The glossary at the end of the book along with the illustrations simplify the subject so all can understand it. One finds it difficult to put the book down once you start reading it. You will want it in your library.--- M. G. DEN. ADVANCES IN APPLIED MICROBI- OLOGY, Vol. I, edited by Wayne W. Umbreit. Academic Press, Inc., New York 3, N.Y. 304 pages, il- lustrated and indexed. Price $9.50. Another of the series of "Advances in--" by this publisher, which so many of us have used in the past. Whether there are sufficient ad- vances in applied microbiology to put out such a volume on an an- nual basis is hard to predict. In attempting to cover a range of subjects of interest to all people, one finds all too often that some of the meat is left out of the sandwich. The contributions fail to describe the real character of modern in- dustrial microbiology. The chapter "Factors Influencing the Antimicrobial Activity of Phe- nols," devotes but four lines to in- activation bynonionics. Elsewhere, flow patterns as actually used in mass production techniques in in- dustry should be included. Up-to- date information on the production of mutations is necessary. The principal value of these "Advances--" series is that usually there are a lot of references in the reviews. Obviously their very forte is their weakness in that the ad- vances in these areas are rapid and it is impossible to keep up with them in such a text which at best is over a year behin4.--M. G. DEN. THE CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY OF EDIBLE OILS AND FATS, edited by J. Devine and P. N. Williams. Pergamon Press, Inc., New York 22, N.Y. 1961. 154 pages, illustrated and indexed. Price $6.50. This text is the published record of the Unilever Conference held at Port Sunlight in 1959. The following are the titles of the papers presented: Physical and Chemical Properties of the Constituents of Edible Oils and Fats Fatty Foods and the Pattern of Their Consumption in the U. K. Processing of Oils and Fats for Edible Purposes The Analysis of Oils and Fats The Determination of Linoleic Acid Gas/Liquid Chromatography of Atheromatous Plaques Modern Spectroscopic and X-ray Techniques with an appendix on Methods of Analysis. Each address carries the dis- cussion that followed the presenta- tion. These contributions came from the Unilever Research staffs in England and Holland, hence reflect to a certain extent, the practice within that company. This is an useful little addition to your library on fats and oils.--M. G. DEN. SYNTHETIC METHODS OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, by W. Theilheimer, 14th yearbook. Interscience Pub- lishers, Inc., New York 1, N.Y. 549 pages, indexed. Price $29.50. Portions of this book appear both in German and English. It covers papers published during 1957-1959 on the broad subject of synthesis of organic compounds, improvement of known methods and also old proven methods.--M. G. DEN.

JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS 491 LIPIDE CHEMISTRY, by Donald J. Hanahan. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York 16, N.Y. 330 pages, illustrated and indexed. Price $10. This interesting volume could almost be called by a title such as "Phospholipid Chemistry." It dis- cusses the lipides starting with the very simplest and going on to con- sider the most complicated and conjugated types as the lipoproteins and proteolipides. No matter how many books on "fats" you have in your library, this one fills in the missing data in other volumes.--M. G. r)EN. ACRY•ac RESINS, by M. B. Horn. Reinhold Publishing Corp., New York 22, N.Y. 192 pages, illus- trated and indexed. Price $4.50. The history, chemistry, proper- ties, manufacture, fabrication and application, including future trends of the four types of acrylics, form the subject matter of this book. It is one of the "plastics application series," usually general in nature but giving quite a bird's-eyefull of valuable data. Better coverage of both trade named materials and industrial us- age would be most useful. The value of acrylates in cosmetics is not mentioned.--M. G. r)EN. Six,•co•Es, edited by S. Fordham. Philosophical Library, Inc., New York 16, N.Y. 1961. 252 pages, indexed and illustrated. Price $10. Along with eleven collaborators the author has prepared twelve chapters on silicone chemistry, man- ufacture and use. The chapter on the commercial aspects of silicones is useful. Here one finds that seventeen companies now produce silicones, for example. Although pharmaceutical uses are mentioned, cosmetics apparently fall into the "other minor application" category. The book is of very limited in- terest to cosmetic chemists, but it does give a good roundup of in- formation for industries using sub- stantial quantities of silicones.-- M. G. r)EN. PHYsic^I• METHOr)S or CHEUICAI• ASAI•YSIS, Vol. I, edited by Walter G. Berl. Academic Press, Inc., New York 3, N.Y. 686 pages, illustrated and indexed. Price $19. The following physical methods are described in as many chapters: absorption phenomena of x-rays x-ray diffraction spectrophot. o.me- try and absorptimetry em•sslon spectrography infrared Raman spectra refractive index mass spectrometry electron microscopy and electron diffraction. A sub- sequent volume will discuss other useful physical methods. Today's analytical laboratory has a difficult time to keep up to date on methods. The present volume in its second revision is a contribu- tion intended to solve this problem. --M. G. DEN. PHOSPHORUS AND ITS COMPOUNDS, Vol. II, by John R. Van Wazer. Interscience Publishers, Inc., New York 1, N.Y. 1961. 1108 pages, illustrated and indexed. Price $35. Aided by fifteen contributors, the author supplements Volume I with an "up-to-date treatment of the technology, functions, and com- mercially important applications of the compounds of phosphorus." Six chapters are devoted to the technology, three to biological func- tions and ten chapters on applica- tions which are further fortified with four appendices on patented uses for the phosphates.