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many other facts and experiments have no doubt 

 been made a study by many of those present, and 

 some have no doubt drawn different conclusions. 



To several I am happy in according thanks for 

 valuable suggestions in furthering the process. 



As the system is one of no mushroom growth, 

 depending on no recommendation except its own 

 intrinsic merit, and not so easily comprehended 

 as the casting of toy-metal or modelling gutta- 

 percha on silver and gold plates (yet possessing 

 peculiar advantages), it is, I trust, fully appreciated 

 by those dentists who have adopted it exclusively 

 in their practice, and doubly so by such of their 

 patients as have had other styles of work replaced 

 by it. 



I therefore now feel that the sacrifices made 

 by others as well as by myself have not been wholly 

 lost. 



But while we have some cause for congratula- 

 tion that the method has attained a certain degree 

 of perfection, we feel free to state that the field of 

 research and experiment is still open and broad. 

 And looking to members of this Society, may we 

 not expect, nay, even hope, that ere long the pro- 

 cess will be so improved that what we are now 

 doing will then look antiquarian, and that every 

 dentist will be still prouder of what he can furnish 

 for its neatness, beauty, and strength, while from 

 its use he daily receives the increasing gratitude 

 of his patients. 



