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HISTORY OF DENTAL SURGEEY 343

To the Patrons of the Dental Recorder:
The tenth volume of this journal ends with the present number.
With an ample subscription list, we find our collections inadequate to paying the
expenses of the magazine: we have, therefore, concluded for the future to avail our-
selves more than heretofore of its value as an advertising medium, and to issue num-
bers only at such intervals as may suit our convenience.
Sutton and Raynok.
February 28, 1857.
This wai3 the end of the New York Dental Eecorder.

THE NEW YORK DENTAL JOURNAL.

The "New York Dental .lournal" was a quarterly, octavo, edited by Frank
H. Norton and George H. Ferine, and published by George H. Ferine, of
New York City. Tlie first number appeared in July 1858. This and the
number for October, 1858, constituted tlie first volume. It seems to have
ended its career at the sixth volume. The constant complaint on its pages
of nonpaying subscribers indicates that it was not appreciated. There seems
little reason why it should have been. It was poorly edited and contained
but little of interest.

THE VULCANITE.

The "Vulcanite," a quarterly journal devoted to the science of mechanical
dentistry, was edited by B. W. Franklin, and published by the American
Hard Rubber Company, of New York C!ity. The American Hard Rubber
Company was the predecessor of the Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Company,
whose representative, Josiah Bacon, caused the dental profession in the I'ni-
ted States so much turmoil a few decades ago. Mr. Franklin was the Hard
Rubber Company's agent for selling licenses to dentists, and supplying them
with requisites for mounting teeth on the new base, and this journal was
published to advance their and his interests. Tlie suJjscription was fifty cents
a year, but it was sent free to all who held a license. While its main pur-
pose was to instruct and interest the profession in the use of the new base,
it contained some articles not closely associated with this ; some selected, and
some original. The first numl)cr is dated Jlav, 1860, the last of the first
volume, February, 18(il. Tlie second volume began with May, 1861, and
ended witli February, 1862. The publication was tlien discontinued.