Chemistry by Micro-Methods" written by E. C. Grey and published by W. Heifers & Sons, Ltd. (Cambridge, England). In this book are detailed instructions for a number of fundamental elementary experiments and for qualitative and volumetric work. Grey has practised his methods with classes of 300 medical students a t the Egyptian University, Cairo. Perhaps the news that such a book is available might interest your readers.
VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE FOR FUTURE CHEMISTS Aptitude and placement tests of the sort indicated in Dr. Brautlecht's paper (THIS JOURNAL,3, 903 (1926)), should be adapted for secondary schools and used there long before the pupil is ready for college or technical school. The preparation of tests and job specifications which would pick out from the mass those who should be actively encouraged t o become chemists and chemical engineers is a worthy task for our Senate of Chemical Education. There is no organized vocational guidance in secondary schools as far as chemical education is concerned. Few of our leading chemists and chemical engineers had any impetus from their high-school teachers to become such. I recently talked with one who spent a year in business school after graduating from high school, a year in a bank, and another in the office of a lumber company before entering college. I n college his interests were for a time equally divided between chemistry and astronomy. Such a lack of guidance has no place in a well-ordered scheme of things. Similar tests are also needed for vocational schools in chemical communities to determine those who should be encouraged t o become analysts, operators, and minor foremen for the plants of the community. Employment officials should be encouraged to assist in this work, which affects boys who never intend to go to college or who quit and go to work before they reach the years in which high-school chemistry is cnstomarily given. The community must educate its future workmen. It cannot depend upon external sources for them. R. E. BOWMAN WIGMINOTON TRADESCEIOOL, WILMINOTON, DELAWARE
