Measured potential data from electrochemical measurements-e.g., half-wave potentials obtained in the polarography of aqueous systems-are commonly recorded against the saturated calomel electrode (SCE). Although these values inevitably include the liquid-junction potentials between saturated KC1 and sample solutions, which can be fairly largee.g., if the sample solution is strongly acidic-they are nevertheless useful, at least for the comparison of data from different laboratories. Actual polarographic measurements, for example, are not always carried out using SCE as the reference electrode. Thus, a mercurous sulfate electrode (MSE) is sometimes used as the external reference electrode because of its supposed merit of less polarization on current passage (/) or to avoid contamination of the sample solution by chloride ion. In such cases, the measured potential values have to be converted to the SCE basis by correcting for the potential difference between the two reference electrodes. There seems to be no standard procedure for the measurement of this potential difference if the normal electrode half-reaction data are not used; the most common one would presumably involve measuring the emf of a galvanic cell comprising the two electrodes in direct contact with each other-e.g., a galvanic cell consisting of SCE and MSE connected to each other by a saturated KC1 bridge.Because published polarographic potential data thus obtained are most useful if they can be duplicated, within experimental error, when the polarography of the identical solu-1 Present address,