SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN 53 DINNER AND DANCE This will take place on Saturday, 13th February 1965, at the Connaught Rooms, Great Queen Street, London, W.C.2. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING This will take place on Monday, 24th May 1965, at 7 p.m., at 55 Park Lane, London, W. 1. 4TH I.F.S.C.C. CONGRESS The 4th I.F.S.C.C. Congress will take place in June 1966, in Paris. Anyone wishing to submit a paper should contact the Societe Francaisc de Cosmetologie, 65, Bid. Lannes, Paris 16e, France. GENERAL NOTICES Publication dates: The "Journal o! the Society o! Cosmetic Chemists"js published every four weeks. Five issues for the Society of Cosmetic Chemists of Great Britain by Pergamon Press Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford, England. Six issues by the Society of Cosmetic Chemists from 201 Tabor Road, Morris Plains, N.J., U.S.A. Two issues by the Gesellscha!t Deutscher Kosmetik-Chemiker, e.V. from Hamburg-Grossfiottbek, Beselerstrasse 1, Germany. Issue No. Publication Date Country of Orig•n • 8th January Great Britain 2 5th February U.S.A. 3 4th March U.S.A. 4 Ist April Great Britain 5 29th April Germany 6 27th May U.S.A. 7 24th June Great Britain 8 22nd July Great Britain 9 •9th August U.S.A. •o x6th September U.S.A. ß x x4th October Great Britain ß 2 • •th November Germany x3 9th December U.S.A. Advertisements: All enquiries regarding advertisements in the British Editions of the Journal should be addressed to Mr. J. V. Robinson, Pergamon Press, Ltd., 4 & 5 Fitzroy Square, London, W. 1. 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: oe10 per annum, post free, or •1 per issue, post free. Missing Numbers: Journals are despatched at Printed Paper rate. Claims for missing numbers can be entertained only from subscribers in the country of origin of the particular issue, and must be made within 30 days from date of 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 statement 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: Reproduction of synopses, duly credited to the authors and Tn,• JOURNAl. OF Tn• SOCmT¾ OF COSM,•TIC Cn•ms•s, is permitted. Digests of articles not exceeding 400 words may be published, duly credited to the author and Tn•. JOURNAl. OF Reprinting or extensive copying (whole pages or articles) is forbidden, except by special permission in writing, from the Hon. Editor. Any republication 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 for Preparation of Manuscripts," copies of which are available from the Hon. Editor, Ashbourne House, Alberon Gardens, London, N.W.ll (see next page).

$4 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS DIRECTIONS FOR PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS 1. General Policy The copyright of papers presented before the Society of Cosmetic Chemists of Great Britain belongs to the Society. A presented paper may only be published, in the first instance, in another journal of the author(s)' choice if the Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists is unable to publish it. 2. Nature of the Text 2.1. When submitting the manuscript of his text the author shall specify, as far as possible, in which category of original scientific literature this text is to be classified, i.e. 2.1.1. original scientific paper 2.1.2. provisional communication or preliminary notes or 2.1.3. subject review article. 2.2. A text is regarded as belonging to the category "Original scientific paper" when it is written in such a way that a qualified research worker, specializing in the same branch of science, is able, simply on the basis of the information given 2.2.1. to produce the experiments and secure the results described with equal accuracy or within the limits of experimental error specified by the author or 2.2.2. to repeat the author's observations and judge his findings or 2.2.3. to check the accuracy of the analyses and deductions on which the author's findings are based. 2.3. A text is regarded as "Provisional communication or preliminary notes" when it contains one or more novel items of scientific information, but is insufficiently detailed to allow readers to check the said information in the ways described in paragraph 2.2 above. 2.4. A "Subject review article" is not designed for publication under the heading of "new scientific information" it is a survey of one particular subject, in which information already published is assembled, analyzed and discussed. $. Dra[ting o[ the Text 3.1. The introduction, of a historical or critical character, although often useful, shall be kept as short as possible in particular the author shall refrain from producing a critical review of the type of the subject review article described above.