Developments in the Teaching of Analytical Chemistry' LUCY W . PICKE'IT, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts

CERTAIN trends in the methods of teaching analyti- Such courses are often given as graduate courses. cal chemistry may be noticed from a comparison of An undergraduate course which provides an intro- college curricula and college texts of the last twenty- duction to these newer analytical technics has been de- five years. In qualitative analysis, for example, the veloped a t Mount Holyoke College. In this, a number growth of emphasis on physical chemical principles and of instruments utilizing optical or electrical properties the increasing use of semimicro technic are two of the such as the chemical microscope, spectrograph, spectro- more prominent developments. While elementary photometer, polarograph, etc., are discussed from the quantitative analysis is obviously less subject to radical point of view of the physical principles involved and the changes of content, courses in advanced analysis have analytical application; these instruments are either been recently introduced which are novel in their treat- used by or demonstrated to the student. The labora- ment. These reflect modem industrial and research tory work includes the use of the micro-balance and the needs for students trained in the intelligent under- *analysis of organic compounds by micro or semimicro standing of instrumental methods of analysis and methods. Methods of presentation used in such a for those trained in micro-analytical methods. course as well as the teaching problems involved and Tbstract of an address presented at the 217th M;eting its effectiveness in the training of students were dis- the N.E.A.C.T., Springfield, Mass., October 10, 1942. cussed.