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tended to advertise the publisher's business, was well edited, and contained
a number of well written original articles. The subscription price was fifty
cents a year. Each volume had from 300 to 300 pages.

THE PEOPLE'S DENTAL JOURNAL.
The "People's Dental Journal," as its title indicates, addressed itself to
the laity, and was intended to instruct the public regarding dental matters.
The object was commendable. Unlike many so called dental journals profess-
ing to be published with this object in view, it was what it professed to be.
Dr. L. P. Haskell was its publisher, and Drs. Walter W. Allport and S. T.
Creighton its editors. Its contents are well written, varied, and ethical. Tl
was published at Cliicago, the first number dated January, 1863, and the
last October of the following year. Only two volumes were issued, each con-
sisting of four quarterly numbers. It deserved a better fate than to die so soon.
The subscription price was fifty cents a year.

THE DENTAL REGISTER,
Form'erly
THE DENTAL REGISTER OF THE WEST.

The movement for the advancement of the dental profession and its or-
ganization at New York and Baltimore in 1839 and 1840, was quickly fol-
lowed by the formation of dental associations in all parts of the country.
As part of this, on August 13, 1844, a number of progressive dentists met
in the lecture room of the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, and or-
ganized the Mississippi Valley Association of Dental Surgeons. This was
the first dental association organized that did not make the suppression of
quackery a cardinal point in its expressed objects. Mutual improvement in
the science and practice of the profession: prompting gentlenianlv courtesy;
social and professional intercourse ; frequent interchange of opinions and
observations : and to elevate the standing of the profession and make it wor-
thy of the confidence of an enlightened public, were the objects named in the
call whidi brought these gentlemen together. The organization was lon^x
lived— it lived to celebrate its golden anniversary—and then disbanded.
Changes incident to the rapid growth in population and industries of that
section nf tlic country made desirable a rearrangement of dental association
business.