The following parameters of cation-and anion-permeable membrane systems were measured: water content; ohmic resistance; exchange capacity; diffusible electrolyte content; concentration potential; rate of exchange-diffusion of electrolytes; rate of diffusion of nonelectrolytes; effect of rate of stirring on diffusive flux. From these were calculated: the thickness of the unstirred film, which varied from 1 to 30 microns; the diffusion coefficient of the potassium ion in a sulfonic acid cation-permeable membrane, which was found to vary from 1.09 x 10 -7 cm 2 sec -1 to twice that value as the ambient solution concentration was changed from 0.001 to 0.1M; the diffusion coefficient of the chloride ion which remained at about 3 x 10-7; the diffusion coefficients of nonelectrolytes. A theoretical treatment showed that diffusion coefficients and other parameters could be estimated from a consideration of pore diameters, a tortuosity factor, and water contents.Of primary importance in any detailed analysis of free and forced transport of ions across ion-selective membranes is the determination of boundary conditions which define film, membrane or coupled filmmembrane diffusion mechanisms as being rate controlling. The appropriate application of Fick's law to diffusion across a membrane and its bounding unstirred films results in an expression which dictates the rate-controlling mechanism under given experimental conditions. The general theory of diffusive processes in ion-exchange resin systems has been described previously by several authors (1-3)