214 •4fternoon 2.00 p.m. 3.45 p.m. 4.00 p.m. JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS "Brains Trust" M. N. CONVI•J.E [Aerosol Packaging Co. Ltd., Bracknell, Berks.]. J. A. T. FISHER [Aerofill Ltd., Perivale, Middlesex]. S. W. FPa•NKISH [Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Runcorn, Cheshire]. R. A. GUNN-SMITH [The Metal Box Co. Ltd., London]. J. P•CKTn^•.L [I.F.F. (Great Britain) Ltd., Enfield, Middlesex]. Question Master: A. HsazK^, Esq. Symposium ends. Tv.^. Symposium on Toxicology A sYMI, OSIU• on Toxicology will take place at the Town Hall, Leamington Spa, Warwicks., on 20th November 1963. Anyone wishing to submit a paper is requested to contact the Hon. Editor. Annual General Meeting This will take place on Friday, 24th May, at 7 p.m. at 5,5 Park Lane, London, W.1. GENERAL NOTICES Publication dates: The "lournal o! the Society o! Cosmetic Chemists" is published monthly. Five issues tot the Society of Cosmetic Chemists o! Great Britain by Pergamon Press, Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford, England. Six issues by the Society o! Cosmetic Chemists from •0! Tabor Road, Morris Plains, NJ., U.S.A. One issue by the Gesellschait Deutscher Kosmetik-Chemiker, e.V. from Hamburg-Grossflottbek, Beselerstrasse 1, Germany. Advertisements: All enquiries regarding advertisements in the British Edition of the Journal should be addressed to Mr. R. D. Miller, Pergamon Press, Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford. .Subscription: All members of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists of Great Britain receive one copy of each edition free. Further copies at non-member rates. Non-members: oe8.85. per annum, post free, or oex per issue, post free. Missing Numbers: Journals are despatched at Printed Paper rate. Claims •or missing numbers can be entertained only from subscribers in the country o! origin ot the particular issue, and must be made within 80 days trom date o! issue. Members and subscribers are urged to give notice of change of address to the Publication Offices. Responsibility for statements published: The Society of Cosmetic Chemists of Great Britain and its Hon. Editor assume no responsibility for statements or opinions advanced by contributors. to this Journal. Lectures: The Society shall have the right of first publication of any lecture or address delivered before it, but does not undertake to publish any given matter. .Copyright: Abstracts or digests of articles not exceeding 400 words may be published, duly credited to the author and THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS. Reprinting or extensive copying (whole pages or articles) is forbidden, except by special permission, in writing, from the Hon. Editor. Any re-publication must indicate the source of the original paper. The copyright of all papers published in the British Edition belongs to the Society of Cosmetic Chemists of Great Britain. Authors must obtain written permission from the copyright-holder to reproduce illustrations or quotations from other sources. .Manuscripts: These should be in accordance with the "Directions to Authors," copies of which are available Irom the Hon. Editor, Ashbourne House, Alberon Gardens, London, N.W.11.

THE NINTH SPECIAL AWARD May 8, 1963 Hotel Biltmore, New York City D}•..[E}•OME G}•oss of Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Medical School is this year's winner of the Society's annual Special Award. He was awarded the honor for his pioneering studies on the forma- tion of collagen. Dr. Gross completed his undergraduate work at the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology and obtained his M.D. degree from New York Uni- versity in 1943. After his internship at the Long Island College Hospital, he served as a medical officer in both the European and Pacific theatres of operation during and after the war. In 1946 he joined the staff of the Biology Department at M.I.T. In 1955, he joined the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, establishing his laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is now head of the Biology Labo- ratory of the Lovett Memorial Group for Study of Diseases causing De- formities at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Primarily known as a medical biologist, Dr. Gross has published a num- ber of studies on the composition, structure, function, genesis, reactivity and abnormalities of connective tissue. Those papers which determined the Society's choice for this year's Special Award are listed at the end of this notice. The Special Award is presented each year to the author or authors of the report(s) of basic research, published in the past two years, judged to be of the greatest potential value to cosmetic technology. The 1963 Special Award was presented to Dr. Jerome Gross at the Society's annual May meeting, this year held jointly with the American Medical Association at the Hotel Biltmore on May 8, 1963. Dr. Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, head of the Department of Dermatology at Harvard Medi- cal School, acted as eulogist for Dr. Gross. REFERENCES (1) "Studies on the Formation of Collagen. (I) Properties and Fractionation of Neutral Salt Extracts of Normal Guinea Pig Connective Tissue," y. Exptl. Med., 107, 247-263 (1958). (2) "Studies on the Formation of Collagen. (II) The Influence of Growth Rate on Neutral Salt Extracts of Guinea Pig Dermis," Ibid., 107, 265-277 (1958). (3) "Studies on the Formation of Collagen. (III) Time-Dependent Solubility Changes of Collagen in Vitro," Ibid., 108, 215-226 (1958). 215