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begin witli tlanuaiy, 18G1, and avoid the inconvenience of the volume ending
in the middle of the year.
Mr. Toland's connection with the "Register" closed with the beginning
of the civil war. He entered the army and lost his life in a battle at Wythe-
ville W. Va., July 18, 1863. Dr. Taft again became its publisher, volume
fifteen, 1861, bearing his imprint on the title page. He remained its pub-
lisher until the close of volume twenty-five, when Spencer and Moore, who
in the meantime had succeeded to the business established by Mr. Toland,
took it in charge. In 1874 the firm became Spencer and Crocker, and later
Samuel A. Crocker and Company, by whom it is now published. On ac-
count of impaired health. Dr. Watt retired from the editorship in 1873.
Early in 1900, Dr. Taft, after some forty-four consecutive years' connection
with the journal, retired, and Dr. N. S. Hoff, of Ann Arbor, became the
editor, a position he has filled acceptably to the present. Wliile the "Dental
Register" during its long career has not been as well edited as some other
dental journals, nevertheless, as tlie professional journal of the west it has
been well supported. Rivals have come and rivals have gone, while it has
steadily held its pace. Under its present management, its "make up," and its
matter are better than formerly.
The "Dental Register" and the "Dental News Letter" as continued by
the "Dental Cosmos," have had the largest continuous existence of any
dental journal of the world. The "Dental Register" and the "Dental News
Letter,"" began on the same date, Octobei', 1817, as quarterly dental jour-
nals. In July, 18.59, the "Dental Register" became a montlily journal, and
one month later, August, 1859, the "Dental News Letter" gave place to a new
monthly journal, the "Dental Cosmos." This is a somewhat singular coinci-
dence. Furthermore, they each have been the leading dental journals in the
section of country in which they are located. Inasmuch, however, as the
"Dental Cosmos" is the successor, and not a continuation of the "Dental News
Letter," to the "Dental Register" belongs the honor of being the oldest dental
journal in existence. The second on the list is the "British Journal of Dental
Science," dating from July 1, 185G ; the sturdier and more portly "Dental
Cosmos" ranks third in asje.

THE DENTAL REVIEW.
The "Dental Review"" appeared as an independent monthly dental joui'-
nal published by W. T. Keener, of Chicago, 111., for the "Dental Review