The papers and discussions in the Symposium on Coal Sampling were presented at the Second and Fifth Sessions of the Fifty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Society held on June 14, 1954, in Chicago, Ill. This symposium was sponsored by Committee D-5 on Coal and Coke, W. W. Anderson, Technical Director, Commercial Testing and Engineering Co., Chicago, Ill., chairman. The symposium was developed by a Symposium Committee under the chairmanship of W. M. Bertholf, Coal Preparation Engineer, Colorado Fuel and Iron Corp., Pueblo, Colo.