REPORT OF COMMITTEE OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Since the Ithaca meeting of the Bmerican Chemical Society the Committee of Chemical Education has been giving considerable attention t o organization of chemistry teachers. Local conditions have largely determined the form of these organizations. Some chemistry teachers have organized in connection with the local section of the A. C. S. The most perfect organization of this type is found at Chicago. Other chemistry
teachers have organized as a section of state teachers' associations. A fine example of this is found in the state of Wisconsin. There are some localities which have considered i t best to organize as independent units. A most excellent organization of this kind is found a t Washington D. C. To get details on these different types of organizations write the respective contributing editors as given on the inside front cover pageof T m s JOURNAL. The states already organized or having reported plans for organization are: Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. The Committee has reason to believe that the entire nation of chemistry teachers will he organized before the spring meeting of the Society with the possible exception of a few southern states where the chemistry teachers are too few and widely scattered to make organization feasible. Even in these states efforts are being made to get in touch with the chemistry teachers through THIS JOURNAL or otherwise, in order to be as helpful as possible to them. The constitutions of the different organizations together with their recent activities bring out a variety of purposes. A few of them are: 1. To promote efficiency in the teaching of chemistry 2. To furnish a place for the study of reports and experiments in chemical education 3. To keep the teachers a t the frontier in chemical education and pure chemical research 4. To help with the National Prize Essay Contest 5. To nominate contributing editors to THISJOURNAL 6. To bring the chemistry teacher in closer touch with the Activities of the A. C. S. in general and the Division of Chemical Education of the A. C. S. in particular 7. To endeavor to keep all national problems taken up by the Committee of Chemical Education of the A. C. S. in tune with the local conditions 8. To keep the teacher in closer touch with opportunities 9. To furnish a common effort in any instituted reform 10. To invite lectures from industrial people and visit industrial plants in order to become more familiar with the practical side of chemistry. It is expected that as soon as these organizations gain more experience, they will find many additional duties and privileges. The committee wishes to take this opportunity to express its appreciation to these local organizations in helping with the project on the "Corre-
lation of High School and College Chemistry." It i s planned that this piece of work will be temporarily finished by the Spring meeting of the Society. The committee say "temporarily for it is realized that a subject advancing as fast as chemistry must have a dynamic outline, but any such dynamic project can always be easily and expediently handled through our national organization of chemistry teachers and this national Journal. WILHELM SEGERBLOM NEIL E. GORDON, Chairman R. E. SWAIN B. S. HOPKINS T. G. THOMPSON L. W. MATTERN F. W. WILLARD L. C. NEWELL F. B. WADE R. E. ROSE WALTER SCHMIDT M
