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398 HISTOKY OF DENTAL SUEGERY

nine grachiated. The property value is placed at $163,000, the income at
$3S,6jO, and the number of volumes in the libraries at 750.
In the North Central division, in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska, are twentj--
three schools, witli three liundred and foiir professors and two hundred and
forty-one assistant instructors, and an enrollment of two thousand six hundred
and fifty-seven men and thirty-three women, of whom forty-six held literary
degrees; six hundred and seventy-eight graduated. Property valuation is
placed at $795,000, income at $116,970 and the number of volumes in the
libraries at 17,334.
In the Western division, in the states of Colorado, Oregon and California,
are five schools, with seventy-two professors and fifty-one assistant instructors,
and four hundred and nine men and seven women students, of whom ten hold
literary degrees : one hundred and twenty-six graduated. The property valua-
tion is placed at $160,000, the income at $61,800 and the books in the libraries
at 300 volumes.
In the bulletin issued b\' this bureau for 1008, fifty-seven schools are
reported, with an enrollment of 6,919. The distribution of these schools is
the same as in the year previous, excepting that the Western division has
one more. From this report it also appears that in 1880 there were sixteen
schools of dentistry, 730 students and 266 graduates. In 1890 there were
twenty-seven schools, with 2,696 students and 943 graduates. In 1900 there
were fifty-four schools, with 7,928 students and 2,029 graduates, and in 1907
there were fifty-seven schools, with 6,919 students and 1,754 graduates. This
shows a decrease in the enrollment from 1900 to 1907 of 1,009 students, and
a decrease in graduates of 275. During the same period the number of
students in theology increased by 1,169 ; in law by 4,198 ; in pharmacy there
was an increase of 1,005 students ; in veterinary medicine there was an
increase of 1,300 and in medicine a decrease of 1,493 students.
The cause for decrease in medical and dental students during the last
seven years, which in both cases is most conspicuous in the last years, is
probably aseribable to the increased entrance requirements in these profes-
sions.
In the matter of the values of grounds and buildings devoted to dental
education, of income and volumes in the libraries, it is very apparent that the
figures are not entirely reliable. So far as grounds and buildings are con-
cerned, many of the buildings occupied are not the property of the dental
schools or departments. In many eases they are rented, and in others they are