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442 HISTORY OF DENTAL SURGERY
NEW YORK COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY...

New York City.
By Paneuil D. Weisse, M. D.
During 1864 certain members of the dental profession of the city of New-
York agitated tlie question as to tlie establislnnent of a dental college in New
York City, which culminated in the presentation of a bill to the Legislature, at
the session of 1865, for the incorporation of the New York College of Den-
tistry. The Act of Incorporation was passed March 31, 1865 (Laws of 1865,
Chapter 264), with the following first Board of Trustees and Directors: Mr.
McNamara Walsh ; Rev. R. R. Booth ; Dr. AV. H. Allen : Dr. C. E. Francis ; Dr.
Geo. E. Hawes; Dr. Arnold C. Hawes; Dr. E. A. Mills; Dr. G. E. Roy; Dr. C.
A. Marvin ; Dr. W. B. Roberts.
A provision of the Act of Incorporation is that "The professors of said col-
lege, while professors therein, shall be members of the board of trustees and
directors." This provision has been, in the history of the college, the pillar of
strength and perpetuity of tlie institution.
The Act of Incorporation was amended April 3, 1867 (Laws of 1867, Chap-
ter 243), as follows: "The Board of Trustees of the New York College of
Dentistry may confer the honorary degree of Fellow of the College of Dentistry
(F. C. D.) upon such persons as have made, or shall have made, valuable con-
tributions to the science of dentistry, upon the recommendation of the Board
of Professors of said College with the consent of the Regents of the Univer-
sity."
From 1865 to 1908 there have been sixty-si.K incumbent, non-professorial
Trustees and Directors.
The Presidents of the board of trastees and directors have been: Eleazar
Parmly, M. D., D. D. S. 1866 to 1869 (resigned) ; Stephen A. Main, D. D. S.,
1869 to 1875 (resigned) ; William H. Allen, D. D. S., 1875 to 1883 (deceased) ;
Mr. McNamara Walsh, 1883 to 1890 (deceased) ; Hon. Hampden Robb, Esq.,
1891 to 1894 (resigned) : F. P. Vanderveer, Esq., 1895 to 1896 (resigned);
George Alexander, D. D., 1896 to date.
At a meeting of the board of trustees and directors, held September 30,
1865, by-laws were adopted (Sec. 5 providing that professors should hold their
positions for one year only) and a faculty was elected for the year 1865-66, as
follows : Dr. Norman W. Kingsley ; Faneuil D. Weisse, M. D. ; Dr. William
H. Atkinson; Dr. William H. Allen: R. King Browne, M. D. ; Dr. Charles
Butler (Cincinnati): William TI. Dwinnelle, M. D.. D. D. S. ; and Joseph