With respect to the first object, I think the purport of the Act is so clear that it requires but few remarks from me. It is impossible to draw any definite line where the help of an unqualified person must cease and that of the duly qualified practitioner commence. Any one who dresses a wound or a bruise, or reduces a dislocation, practises surgery, and no one could for a moment imagine that a law would ever be passed to prevent his doing so; and in like manner, we could not expect that the legislature would ever allow the drawing of a tooth or any other similar operation to be made a penal action, although the person so doing may be said to be practising Dentistry; but as soon as any one endeavours to make the public believe he is a qualified practitioner, by assuming the title of Dentist or any other name implying the possession of the Dental diploma, so soon he becomes amenable to the law; the act thus guaranteeing to the public, that _for the future_, any one who claims the professional title shall of necessity have obtained the necessary qualification. Any person, or any number of persons, who may wish to put the act in force in any particular case can do so, but before taking action it will be necessary to obtain the sanction of the Medical Council. This at first sight may seem to be an unnecessary precaution, yet I think on further consideration you will admit that it is a very wise provision, as it entirely prevents the possibility of any one being proceeded against from personal pique or any other improper motive; and if in any case it is thought desirable that a person’s name should be removed from the register, all that is necessary is to collect sufficient _reliable_ evidence, and transmit it to the central board in London, who will bring the matter before the Medical Council, the only body by whom such action can be taken. And in cases where these proceedings may be necessary, I am sure they can be carried out without earning for ourselves the opprobrium of acting as spies or professional police, which some have already been willing to assign to us. With regard to the second object of the Society, we must all feel that the interests of the profession will at times require the careful consideration of its members, and necessitate the existence of some organised body which shall be able to act with the authority of the bulk of its members, and for this, no better scheme can be devised than the one we are now so much interested in—the formation of a central society, with recognised branches in the more distant parts of the country, constituting an organisation by which the feeling of the majority of the profession may at any time be ascertained on any question that may arise bearing on the well being of the profession.