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views regarding the future of dentistry are reflected in the name he chose for
the new journal, for he it was that chose the name, "The Dental Cosmos.''
He placed upon its title page the suggestive motto, "Observe, Compare, Ke-
fleet, Eecord," and enforced constantly on his students and compeers the
importance of cultivating the studious habits that motto suggests. He was
energetic, a tireless worker, self-willed to the verge of obstinacy, and yet so
tactful a diplomat as to escape enmity. Tliat his ideas concerning his pro-
fession were unpopular; that they were ridiculed by some and condemned by
others, passed unnoticed by this born leader of men who demanded for his
calling a broader culture and a wider field.
The time was ripe for an aggressive and a progressive move in dental
journalism, and fortunate it was for our profession that the opportunity
found the man.
The first issue of the new journal appeared in August, 1859, and the last
of the first volume in July, 18fi0. The subscription price was two dollars and
a half; it contained 680 pages.
May 1, 1861, Mr. dones retired from tlie firm, the business being contin-
ued by Dr. Samuel S. White.
Witli the close of the sixth volume. Dr. J. D. White retired from the edi-
torial stafl'. To overcome the inconvenience of the volume closing at the mid-
dle of tlie year, the ninth volume consisted of five numbers onlj', volume ten
beginning with January, 1868.
With the close of volume thirteen, December, 1871, Drs. McQuillen and
Ziegler severed their connection with the "Dental Cosmos,"' and Dr. James
W. Wliite, a brother of the publisher, assumed its editorial management.
Dr. Samuel S. White died December 30, 1879, the trustees of his estate
then became the puldishers of the ensuing volume, the twenty-second, 1880.
Later they organized, in accordance with Dr. White's desire. The S. S. A^Hiite
Dental Manufacturing Companv, which assumed and continued all his busi-
ness interests, which included the publication of the "Cosmos."
May 27, 1891, Dr. James W. White, the editor of the "Cosmos," suddenly
died. Since January, 1872, he had ably filled the position. He was well
qualified by education and temperament to supervise a professional journal.
He was in full accord with the purpose the first editors of the journal had in
view, to treat dentistry as a science rather tlian as a vocation, and, while not
neglecting the handicraft side of the calling, to educate its readers to appre-
ciate the sciences on which its methods and practices are based, and those
other sciences, n kiniwlediio of wliicli is indispensal>le to a dentist who desires