HIGH-SCHOOL NOTES

ELBERT C. WEAVER1
Bulkeley High School. Hartford, Connecticut

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Other scheduled meetings which readers of THIS

may attend are January 6, Attleboro, Massa-
JOURNAL

T H E Natiunul Commillee on Science Teaching has

held four meetings. Six sub-committees are a t
work on a reorganization program of sciencein the
chusetts,
facturers,
trip to the Balfour Company, jewelry manu-
and a talk by Dr. J. W. Irvine of the Massa-
first fourteen grades. Some material which these com- chusetts Institute of Technology, on "Synthetic Radio-
mittees are developing has been sent to a great many active Elements"; February 3, Milton Academy
teachers for evaluation and suggestions. The Com- (Massachusetts); March 2, Wilbraham Academy
mittee will meet a t St. Louis, Feb. 23-24, 1940. It is (Massachusetts) ; April 5, Westerly, Rhode Island ;
composed of five representatives of the National May 4, Andover Academy (Massachusetts).
Education Assodation and one member each from ten The New England Association of Chemistry Teachers
organizations interested in science education, including is planning another summer conference. Theodore W.
the Division of Chemical Education of the A. C. S. Sargent, Swampscott High School, Swampscott, Massa-
Dr. Ira C. Davis, University High School, Madison, chusetts, Chairman, announces August 13-16 a t the
Wisconsin, is acting as chairman of the Committee. University of Mainefor the 1940 conference.
Many science teachers about the country are acting as INQUIRY
consultants and are working on sub-committees.
The Division of Chemical Education's Committee on "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
High School Chemistry is H. W. Baker, Instructor in Work is a form of energy." If you wind up a clock
Chemistry, James Ford Rhodes High School, Cleve- spring you do work. Now tie a platinum wire about
land, Ohio; Nicholas Cheronis, Wright Junior College, the spring in order that it cannot expand. Slowly dis-
Chicago, Illinois; R. E. Davis, Head of Chemistry solve the spring in acid from the bottom to the top.
Department, Lane Technical High School, Chicago, Where does the energy go?-J. D. LONGANECKER,
Illinois; Robert L. Ebel, Instructor in Chemistry, Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
Edison Institute, Dearborn, Michigan; Elbert C.
Weaver, Instructor in Chemistry, Bulkeley High
School, Hartford, Connecticut; Martin V. McGill,
Instructor in Chemistry, Lorain High School, Lorain,
AN EXPERIMENT FOR THE DETER-
Ohio, Chairman. This committee will meet as a group MINATION OF TRANSFERENCE
a t the Cincinnati meeting of the A. C. S. NUMBERS BY ELECTROMO-
TIVE FORCE METHODS-
REGIONAL ACTMTIES A CORRECTION
The Northeastern Ohio Chemistry Feathers Organiza- sme appear in this article by C, M, Mason
tion met a t Hubbard, Ohio, December 2,1939. A trip and E. F. Mellon (J. c m ~EDUC., . 16, 512-3 (1939)).
through the plant of the Ohio Leather Company a t The corrections are as follows:
Girard and talks by Dr. H. S. Booth of Western Resenre Equation should read
Universitv
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College were features. "Neo-Chemto," this organiza-
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(Ohio),

tion, is cooperating. with the Division of Chemical

ducati ion committee in developing a course of study in Equation 2 should read:
high-school chemistry.
The New England Association of Chentistry Teachers RT Q
held its one hundred ninetv-seventh meeting. a t North- E,, = 2T. In ;
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eastern University, ~ o s t o i ~assachusetts,-on
, Decem-
ber 9, 1939. Professors Luder and ZuBanti of the host Cell I11 should read:
institution delivered papers, and John Hogg, Exeter Ag, AgC1, HCI (a,), HZ(1 atm.). . .H, (1 atm.), HCl (a*)
(New Hampshire) Academy described present chemis-
trv teachinr in Eneland. Dr. H. H. Sheldon. American AgCL Ag
~ i s t i t u t eoFthe C& of New York, discussed the exDan- The electrodes in the fimre should be labeled A .. B..
sion of the ~nstitutk'sclub program. C, and D from left to right:
- 1 Present address: Polytechnic High School, Long Beach,
T. and T, in Columns 6 and 7 in Table 1 should be
California. interchanged, the higher value being that for T,.