PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Gentlemen, — It is my pleasing privilege and 

 duty, as President, to address you on the occasion 

 of this, the first meeting of the Odontological 

 Society ; but, while I feel it to be a pleasing, yet it 

 is both a difl&cult and responsible duty — inasmuch 

 as, in addressing an assembly like the present, 

 when members of the same profession have met 

 together for the first time, I have to satisfy that 

 increased amount of expectancy and curiosity, and to 

 contend with that degree of excitement, which is in- 

 separable from new movements ; also to undergo the 

 ordeal of criticism from gentlemen well able to pass 

 judgment on my performance. I must therefore 

 beg your indulgence, if my words do not fully 

 express the interest and importance which, I so 

 strongly feel, attach to this inauguration of our 

 new Society. 



It is a source of much satisfaction, on looking 

 back, to find that great progress has been made in 

 our special branch of practice within the present 

 century. In the last century, dental practitioners 

 were limited in number, and, generally speaking, of 



