It need scarcely be stated that an increase of members, both of the Central Association, and its separate branches, is absolutely necessary to enable the Executive to carry out the provisions of the Act, and there is little doubt that with moderate effort, we may all succeed in inducing others to join. The Association is destined to represent the profession in the future, and it is our business to make its representative character a living reality, and not a mere empty name. Mr. J. S. CRAPPER (Hanley), moved the adoption of the report. It was seconded by Mr. Headridge (Manchester), and carried. Mr. Major STEWART, of Liverpool, said that as his name had been mentioned in the report, he begged to thank them for the honour they had conferred on him by electing him Vice-President of the branch. He thanked them, on behalf of his brethren in Liverpool, for the honour the Society had conferred on them. THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. The PRESIDENT then delivered his address, and said:— Gentlemen,—It is my pleasing duty in the first place to thank you, not only for the kindness you have shown in electing me to the responsible position of President of your Branch, but also for having given me the honour of being the First President of the First Branch of the British Dental Association. I need scarcely say that the fact of our meeting here to-day as we are now doing is a subject for congratulation, and the presence of so many, and the distance some of you have come, proves the interest you take in the great movement of the day, which has called into existence the central Society of which we now form a branch. Every new movement is sure to give rise to more or less excitement and sometimes to great expectations, and I must, therefore, beg, first for myself, your kind forbearance for my numerous shortcomings, of which I am only too conscious; and secondly, for your society I must also ask your kind consideration, if at the first it seems to you scarcely to come up to the high standard of your anticipations, requesting you to remember that it is still in its infancy, that it has commenced its existence under difficulties, and I regret to say, not without some opposition. It will, therefore, require care and energy, not only on the part of the Executive body, but also in each individual member, to bring it to that state of maturity we all are anxious to see it attain. I feel certain from your presence here to-day that you have the interest of the Society at heart, but I venture to remind you that the simply feeling an interest in a thing is not sufficient in itself to command success. _That_ is a result which requires, especially in these days, both energy and labour, and we must never forget that our future position and progress as a Society, will mainly depend on our own individual efforts, since we are each of us an individual unit, the aggregate of which units forms the Society itself.