. Dental he made translations. In 1821 he published an interest-ing work of 400 pages entitled, Geological Essays, the firstgeneral work on geology published in the United States. Asa botanist, also, he was well versed, and wrote on silk wormculture, etc. He also excelled with rod and gun, being an en-thusiastic sportsman. After having obtained personal successand secured a high professional standing, he was anxious to THE DENTAL SUMMARY 259 improve the standing of his profession in general. It was hewho is known as the progenitor of the science and art ofAmerican dental surgery. He
. Dental he made translations. In 1821 he published an interest-ing work of 400 pages entitled, Geological Essays, the firstgeneral work on geology published in the United States. Asa botanist, also, he was well versed, and wrote on silk wormculture, etc. He also excelled with rod and gun, being an en-thusiastic sportsman. After having obtained personal successand secured a high professional standing, he was anxious to THE DENTAL SUMMARY 259 improve the standing of his profession in general. It was hewho is known as the progenitor of the science and art ofAmerican dental surgery. He took the initiative with ChapinA. Harris and others in founding the first dental college andfirst dental journal, and after consultation with his professionalbrethren in the eastern cities, who favored his idea of an as-sociaton of dentists, he issued a call for a meeting of organ-ization, at the American Hotel, New York city, August 18,1840, at 10 a. m., and the American Society of Dental Sur-geons was Chapin A. Harris Chapin Aaron Harris, a man of many talents, whose per-sistent energy as an organizer and promoter of the best inter-ests of the profession also materially assisted in uniting dentalsurgery to science. Harris was a man of large conceptions, a fertility of ideasand resourcefulness, and so generous with his time and money,in the interest of our calling, that he died poor, leaving hislarge family in want. Born May 16, 1806, in Pompey, N. Y.,at the. age of 17 removing to Ohio. He studied medicine, andlater dentistry, with his brother John, and traveled for severalyerf-s as an itinerant, finally locating in Fredericksburg. a short while, locating permanently at Baltimore in 1835,where he became a close friend of Horace H. Hayden, and as-sisted him in organizing the American Society of Dental Sur- 2G0 THE DENTAL SUMMARY geons, the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery and the Ameri-can Journal of Dental Science. Harris was a prolific 1838 li
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