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REVIEW OF DENTISTRY. 19

NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND SOCIETIES.

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DENTAL FACULTIES.
(American.)

history of organization.

In April, 1884, there appeared in the Dental Cosmos (page
247) the following general notice: "At an informal conference of
the deans of the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, the
Philadephia Dental College, the Dental Department of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, and the Baltimore College of Dental
Surgery, it was decided to invite a meeting of Faculties (or their
representatives) of all the dental colleges in the United States,
at the Sturtevant House, New York City, on Monday, August 4,
1884, for the purpose of adopting a uniform standard of gradua-
tion, etc."
(Signed) R. B. Winder James Garretson.
James Truman. C. N. Pierce.
Pursuant to the above call, a number of representatives of
dental colleges met as specified, as follows:
Baltimore College of Dental Surgery; Boston Dental College;
Chicago College of Dental Surgery; Harvard University, Dental
Department; University of Iowa, Dental Department; New York
College of Dentistry; University of Michigan, Dental Depart-
ment; Ohio College of Dental Surgery; Pennsylvania College
of Dental Surgery; Philadelphia Dental College; University of
Pennsylvania, Dental Department.

[Note.—Upon the assembling of the delegates in the first preliminary
meeting, in August, 1884, they found a rule prevailing largely among colleges
of dentistry in the United States, by which a practitioner of five or more years
might, at the outset, be admitted to the senior grade and finally graduated on
one term of five months. But more than this, they found, that in absence of
any competent censorship, such students could be admitted at the middle of a
term, and thus really attend but about three months before receiving diplo-
mas. These facts, added to a total lack of uniformity in methods of teaching
and standards of requirements on examination, demonstrated the necessity
for organized effort.]
A temporary organization was effected with C. N. Peirce, of