I have taken a great interest in this Hospital and School from its early foundation, when the pupils were few, and the School and Hospital had, so to speak, to win its spurs; but in passing, I may here remark that that small class of students, then a new feature in London life, by their diligence, learning and conduct, have established throughout the country a name and reputation that you will have to perpetuate. It was by the combined efforts of the whole profession, and by the fact that its senior members were able to point back to so many successful students of this School and Hospital, now earnest practitioners in nearly every large town of the British Isles, that the leaders of our department of Surgery were enabled to bring this special branch before the notice of Parliament, and obtain a Bill which now governs the method and extent of the classes and hospital practice of all our schools. As your lecturer, I may perhaps without egotism mention that I was one of the six gentlemen appointed as the first Assistant Dental Surgeons to this Hospital, while it was struggling through its first year of active life. I remained at my post nearly ten years, until driven by increasing practice to relinquish the work, then, as now, carried on in your Hospital. It is the knowledge and experience I then gained, and the lessons I have since learnt as the result of treatment in private practice, that I have now to offer you—many failures and some successes, many abortive schemes, and some inventions that have stood the test of time. My best thanks are due to the Managing Committee of this Hospital, for electing me to be the colleague of such men as Alfred Coleman, C. S. Tomes, and D. Lewis.