356 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS thanks go to our Hon. Education Officer, Mr. Clark, to Dr. Scott and to the Education Committee who have worked hard to bring this about. Our thanks also to members who have lectured to the students in the past session. A prize, to the value of oe5, is to be awarded each year by the Society to the candidate who is placed first in the Diploma Examination. The first award will be made in the 1963-4 session. The text book on Cosmetic Science will be published in the summer, and will be used for the Diploma course. Dr. Hibbott and his team of contributors are to be congratulated on this work which constitutes another advance for the Society. The Institute of Weights and Measures Administration issued a Statement criticising many aspects of the cosmetic industry. A sub-committee was set up by Council to examine this. As a result the conclusion was reached that many of the criticisms were unsound. Accordingly, a Statement in reply was drawn up and circulated to the press and to all members. International Federation of Societies of Cosmetic Chemists. Mr. Wilkinson, one of the British delegates to the I.F.S.C.C., has been elected Honorary Treasurer of the Federation. Mrs. Millman continues to be its General Secretary. The Third International Congress will be held in New York in June 1964. The American Society has been most generous in making no charge to delegates from foreign societies for either the Congress or for board. At the time of writing over fifty members of the British Society have indicated their intention to attend. Hospital Beauty Room. In October, the President and Vice-President visited the Mental Hospital at Menston, near Leeds, where the Society had equipped a Beauty Room similar to that in use at Halliwick Hospital. The hospital authorities were pleased with the results, the treatment was popular on average twelve patients are treated a day. Symposia are becoming a very important part of the Society's activities and more are planned, following those successfully held on "Perfumery" and "Aerosols". During the year the Scientific Committee has been particularly concerned with Methods of Analysis and Toxicology. A list of accepted colorants has been published, and the initiative taken in calling a meeting of firms interested in the possible dangers in the use of hairsprays. In the voting for 3 new members of Council, Messrs. R. E. Eckton, R. F. L. Thomas and N. J. van Abbe were elected. The Officers for 1963-4 are: President: Immediate Past President: Vice-President Honorary Secretary: Honorary Treasurer: Mr. S. J. Bush Mr. G. A. C. Pitt Mr. A. Herzka Miss L. P. Torry Mr. D. F. Anstead Some 36 members stayed on to enjoy the pleasantly informal supper which followed the business meeting. D.E.B.