Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the American Academy of Dental Science, at Their Eleventh Annual Meeting: Held in Boston, Oct. 30, 1878 In asking me, Who am not a dentist, to speak to you, you have determined beforehand, for yourselves, the subject of this annual address. You doubtless thought that, as it is my duty to watch the condition and Observe the methods of professional education in general, and to study the means by Which the lib eral professions have been recruited, organized, and invested with dignity, my experience might enable me to make some useful suggestions concerning den tal education and the means of improving the state of the profession of dentistry. At any rate, these topics are the only oneswhich my training and occupation fit me to treat before a body like this; so that your expectation and my desire to be of some service, how ever Slight, to the Academy and the profession, both point to the same themes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.