Excerpt from Johnstons' Dental Miscellany, 1881, Vol. 8: A Monthly Journal of American and Foreign Dental, Surgical, Chemical and Mechanical Literature Have our organizations shown the advancing thought of the day in dental progress? No sane man will venture to say that associated effort has not marked the direct line of progress in our calling. Many of us present can distinctly discern the pathway of our growth, during the past twenty years, in active alliance with one or more associated bodies. These bodies have done very much for us. It is quite natural that there will be lapses of interest with individuals and collective bodies of men arising from various causes, and we have had continued examples of this. We can, in a hasty review, bring before our minds the organized bodies which have been actively engaged for a goodly period of time and have ceased to exist under their original titles. The Brooklyn Dental Association at no time during its existence was second to any associate body of dentists. Its reputation was world-wide. That society was the Alma Mater to many a dentist. Many of us made our first bow before the profession in it, ' and it is very gratifying, as we run over the lists of the members, to find that so few have passed out of this life and that so many are more or less actively engaged in organized effort now. 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.