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of Dental Examiners, 1SS3, and the National Association of Dental Faculties, 1884;
the first forms a union of the state boards of dental examiners, whose purpose it is to
secure a high and uniform standard for dental practitioners. The second organization,
with which we have mainly to do, is the union of the faculties of dental schools with a
purpose to further the interests of dental instruction. »
In the first session of the National Association of Dental Faculties, it was resolved
that in all schools of the association, five, or even twenty years ' practical work, should
no longer take the place of one of the two study years, but that all students should be
required to attend the school two full years.
Further, it was resolved that entrance examinations should be demanded from all
candidates who do not present proof of a sufSeient preliminary education. Year by year
more new schools joined this association until now their number reaches fifty-two. The
progress which has been made in dental science in America during the last fifteen years
is in a high degree due to this association and the National Association of Dental Exam-
iners, because they gradually demanded a higher preliminary education and an en-
larged dental course of studies, so that now the preliminary requirements are not far be-
hind those demanded here, while a dental education there surpasses that prescribed in
Germany. At this place it may be mentioned that the reputable schools in America
now demand two years of study from approved dentists (approbierten Zahnarzten) be-
fore they can reach the doctor's degree.

BALTIMORE COLLEGE OF DENTAL SURGERY.
Baltimore, Md.

By William Simon, Ph. D., M. D.
It is gignificant that the teachers of the first dental school were also prime
movers in tlie establisliment of the first dental journal and the first dental
association. They were Horace H. Harden and Chapin A. Harris, whose en-
ergetic, far-sightedness and unselfishness, we now realize was conspicuous.
Their willingness to give freely to others was an essential necessity for the up-
building of a successful and useful dental school.
Hayden, shortly after beginning practice in Baltimore, gave instruction in
dentistry to classes in his office at night, which he carried along until the
formation of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery.
The medical faculty of tlie ITniversity of Maryland invited him to give a
course of lectiires before the medical class in the session of 1837-38. This
attempt at teaching dentistry by means of lectures was probably the seed sown
from which germinated the college under consideration not long thereafter.
Chapin A. Harris commenced his medical studies and began practice in