556 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS However, Mrs. Patricia Salzedo who took her place had previous experience with a learned society and was quick to assume her new responsibilities. Currently the office is manned during mornings only, with a telephone answering machine taking enquiries at other times. However, the load on the General Secretary is considerable and increasing, in spite of the fact that Council members shoulder a great deal of their own secretarial work on behalf of the Society. Consequently Council is keeping the situation under review and may have to increase the secretarial help available in the office. Most of the necessary furniture and equipment has now been obtained for the office, which as expected, has become the venue for virtually all Council and committee meetings. At the beginning of the year the Hon. Secretary was given full responsibility for both the office and the General Secretary, and Council are glad to record their appreciation of the smooth way in which the office is now functioning. Scientific meetings The full programme of meetings was held with the exception of Mr. Dudley Smith's lecture on "Problems of Parliament" which had to be cancelled at short notice when he stood (successfully) in a Parliamentary Bye-election. Undoubtedly the outstanding meeting of the year was the panel discussion jointly organised with the British Society of Perfumers, and the Aerosol Discussion Group of the Institute of Packaging. This was attended by a very large audience. The meetings were as follows:- 5th October 1967 "Mouth odour" 7th December 1967 "Lucent syrops tinct with cinnamon" 4th January 1968 "Synergism of antimicrobials" 1st February 1968 "Perfuming aerosol products" Panel discussion Dr. M. N. Naylor Dr. V. L. S. Charley Dr. E. E. Boehm Mr. E. Clough Mr. P. Dyson Dr. W. Pilz Mr. G. van Loveren

^ssuA•, •eoar OF COUSC•, FOR 1967-68 557 22nd March 1968 Medal Lecture--"Eyesweet and colour science in cosmetics" Dr. B. H. Crawford 2nd May 1968 "Some rheological aspects of cosmetics" Mr. B. Warburton and Dr. B. W. Barry Symposia These have been most successful. The symposium at Leamington which included a visit to Avon Cosmetics, generated immense interest and resulted in an attendance of 150. The spring 1968 symposium at Harrogate on the subject of "Technical developments in packaging for the cosmetic industry" was supported by 108 registrants. Education Of the 19 students who sat the Diploma Examination at Borough Polytechnic in June 1967, eleven were successful. The Hibbott Memorial Prize was awarded to Mr. J. Gokhale. At enrolment in September 1967 the Diploma Course was again over- subscribed, but preference was given to students employed in the industry. Of the present lecturers, five are members of the Society--viz. Mr. E. K. Clarke, Mr. K. Curry, Dr. T. J. Elliott, Mr. S. Golding and Mr. A. F. Morris. The Council's thanks are due to them all for ensuring the continuance of this valuable course. Due to the efforts of Mr. K. Tomlinson, it is now expected that a second Diploma Course will begin at Salford Technical College in October 1968. The Society has also explored the possibility of organising a course in the Midlands, but the necessary interest and support was lacking. Journal The Society has continued to play its part by publishing promptly 5 of the 13 issues of the Journal. In common with other scientific journals it has been decided to adopt the metric {SI) system in the Journal from January 1969. The American Society's problem in producing its issues economically,