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rights and privileges conferred upon legally qualified medical
practitioners by the Acts relating to the practice of medicine and
surgery in this Province.
There now exist two institutions for dental education in the
Province of Ontario, viz., School of Dentistry of the Royal Col-
lege of Surgeons of Ontario, and University of Toronto De-
partment of Dentistry. From the former institution the student
receives the degree of Licentiate of Dental Surgery. But there
can also be obtained another degree from that college. Section
2 of By-law No. 9, of Consolidated By-laws of the Royal College
of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, reads:
"All licentiates of dental surgery of the Province of Ontario,
of not less than five years' standing, shall be eligible for exam-
ination for the title of Master of Dental Surgery."
Section 4 further reads: "The examination shall embrace the
following subjects, viz.: Minute Anatomy of the Head and Neck,
Visceral Anatomy and Physiology, Pathology, Dental Histology,
Chemistry, Dental Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Dental
Surgery, Operative Dentistry, and Practical Dentistry."
From the University of Toronto Department of Dentistry

the student receives the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery.
The study of dentistry in the Province of Ontario involves a
course of three and one-half full calendar years under indentures
(not being engaged in any other business or occupation during
the term).
The number of dentists in Ontario is about 480.
There are four dental societies; Ontario Dental Association,
Eastern Ontario Dental Association, Toronto Dental Society,
and Hamilton Dental Society.

NOVA SCOTIA.

An Act to Incorporate the Dental Association of the
Province of Nova Scotia. Assented to this ic/th Day of
May, 1891. M. B. Daly, Lieutenant-Governor.
preamble.

Whereas, By petition it has been represented that the profes-
sion of dentistry is extensively practiced in the Province of Nova
Scotia, and that it is expedient for the protection of the public
that there should, by enactment, be established a certain standard
of qualification required of each practitioner of the said profes-