The article presents information about abstracts of various papers presented at the 8th annual meeting of the Society for Cutaneous Ultrastructure Research that was held from May 21 to 23, 1981 in London, England. Some papers are, the study to investigate the ultrastructure of the nail plate by G. Achten, D. Parent, G. De Dobbeleer and F. Stouffs-Vanfoof, Ichthyosis hystrix type Curth-Macklin had been separated from bullous ichthyosiform erythroderma on the basis of its peculiar ultrastructural features with tonofibriltar shell formation and a high percentage of binuclear cells by I. Anton-Lamprecht, B. Kern, G. Goerz and S. Marghescu.