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quired to acquaint themselves with the general rules of the sani-
tary service.
" 'They must present certificates of having passed at least four
classes of a secondary school.
" ' Art. IV. The special examining board for the examination
of a candidate for the grade of dentist of the second class is ap-
pointed by the general directors of the sanitary service, and shall
consist of a representation of the Central Board of Sanitation, of
a surgeon-dentist of the capital, of the General Director of the
Sanitary Service, and of a professor of the Medical Faculty be-
longing to the surgical or anatomical department, and named by
the Dean of the Faculty.
" ' Art. V. The examination consists of three parts: Written,
oral, and practical, on the cadaver. The written examination
deals with some subject taken from dental anatomy, physiology,
pathology, or from operative dental surgery,' etc.
"The promulgation of the law of 1888 is a source of great satis-
faction to me, for this law, perhaps the work of Dr. Vasilesen,
with whom, as mentioned, I had the honor of a correspondence,
gives grounds to hope that our country may shortly be able to
show more worthy representatives of the dental art than it now
possesses."
The number of dentists in Roumania is, according to Dr.
Saul Schreiber, of Jassy: Doctors of Dentistry, 5; Autodidac-
ten, 55.

RUSSIA.

(empire.)
Area, 2,095,504 square miles. Population, 95,870,810.
Capital, St. Petersburg; population, 1,003,315.
Until the beginning of this century the dentists in Russia had
nearly all been foreigners, mostly English and French. This cir-
cumstance explains why the word "dentiste" is still to be found in
every Russian dental diploma.
The first dentist in Russia, being a Russian, was W. A.
Pravedny, who received his diploma in 1842. Until 1870 the num-