This paper presents for consideration some questions and points of view bearing upon the methods of indicating within chemical formulas electronic conceptions of valence now in vogue.Alfred W. Stewart (1) in his latest volume, "Recent Advances in Organic Chemistry," states that "The greatest problem before Organic Chemists at the present day is the application of modern electronic views to the salient phenomena among the reactions of carbon compounds." If we accept this dictum, we are immediately confronted with two pertinent questions. First, in what manner and to what extent should the chemist's graphic or