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ber of operations performed during the year. 4,242. Total number of fillings, 1.151 : anaesthetic cases. 172; simple extractions, 275 ; crowns and bridges, 150; artificial dentures supplied, 1-15. This is the fourth year that the school has been running, and three students have completed the four-years training, and are now holders of the degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery the first to be granted in this country. From the results of these Undents' training ami professional examinations 1 am aide to state that the course provided here, and as laid down by the Senate of New Zealand University, is quite equal to that of any othei dental school or University department elsewhere, and is considerably wider in its scope and capable of showing far better results than a great many others. Unfortunately, the number of students has not been what it should have been. This is chiefly owing to an amendment of the Dental Ad passed last session whereby a number of students who should have come to tin- school last year or this have been enabled to qualify as dentists by sitting for an examination held by a Dental Board in Wellington. This has bad the effect of throwing the school and the standard of entrance to the dental profession back for some years. Such occurrences are very disappointing, and entirely negative one's efforts to make the school a success. It is sincerely to be hoped that there should be no further relaxation of regulations or alteration of the law. The honorary staff of the Hospital remains a> befi re. Dr. Fitchett was appointed last winter session as special Lecturer on Medicine for Dental Students, since it was found that the ordinary course of lectures by the Professor of Medicine was too wide in scope and detail for the purposes of the dental training. Dr. Fitchett resigned the post upon being appointed Lecturer in Materia Mediea, and Dr. Stuart Moore has been appointed to the vacancy. The Director continues to hold the position of Honorary Dental Sure-eon to the Dunedin Hospital, and has also beer appointed Honorary Consulting Dental Surgeon to the Pleasant Valley Sanatorium. These appointments are valuable from a teaching point of view, since it gives an opportunity for impressing upon students in a practical manner the relationship between dental and general systemic diseases. This year, for the first time, the Saturday Hospital Association have set aside a sum of £25 to be applied foi the treatment of such patients as cannot afford to pay the fees charged at this Hospital. This fund is being administered by Mr. Gumming, secretary of the Patients and Prisoners Aid Society, and the method is working well, except that the grant is far too small and could have been used up in the first two months. School of Mines.—Report of the Director (Professor James Park, M.lnst.M.M., M.A.Inst.M.E., F.G.S.). The Mining School for the year ending 1910 showed an attendance of thirty-one students, of whom eight were taking the courses in mining and metallurgy, three the course in geology, and five the course in surveying. Of the remaining fifteen students, eleven attended the classes in geology, two the class in dental metallurgy, and two the classes in surveying and applied mechanics. Twenty-nine students presented themselves for examination at the annual examinations in October, and all passed except otic in mathematics and one in surveying. In the New Zealand University November examinations Henry Myall Budd gained the M.Sc. degree with first-class honours in physical science and geology. Leonard .1. Wild second-class honours in geology, and Montague Ongley the New Zealand senior scholarship in geology. Mr. W. A. Macleod. B.Sc, A.0.5.M., general manager of the Brilliant Gold-mining Company (Limited), Charters Towers, was awarded tin.' forty-guinea prize of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, London, for 1910, for his paper on " The Surface Condenser in Mining Power Plant." Two graduates of the School oi Mines who had already passed the necessary examinations and presented satisfactory evidence that they bad complied with the regulations relating to practical work were awarded the diploma of associate—namely, one in mining and one in geology—and three were awarded the Certificate of Land and Mine Surveyor. Tin.' diplomas granted by the University of Otago in tin- divisions in mining, metallurgy, and geology since 1887 are as follows: Mining, 90; metallurgy, 49 ; geology, 16: total, 155. Among the more important appointments obtained by graduates of the Mining School dining HMO are the following: W. M. Dttranl. A.0.5.M., uiine-siirvevor, Consolidated Goldfields (Limited), h'eofton: G. L. Hercus, A.0.5.M., Director. Westport," School of Mines; O. Core Adams. A.0.5.M., consulting engineer. Bolivia Mining Company (Limited); S. Napier.-Bell, A.0.5.M.. consulting engineer, African Tin-mining Company, Nigeria; Geoffrey W. E. Turner. A.0.5.M.. manager, Progress Mines (Limited). Iteefton : A. Spencer. A.0.5.M., assistant general manager. New Zealand Consolidated Goldfields (Limited); J. Allan Thomson, M.Sc, A.0.5.M., geologist to British Antarctic Expedition (1910). (retired owing to ill health); P. Fitzgerald, A.0.5.M., general manager, Oroya Links Gold-mining Company (Limited), Kalgoorlie; D. M. Timlinson. A.0.5.M.. B.Sc, assistant general manager. Korea Copper Company (Limited), Korea; Oluf Moen, A.0.5.M., manager, Scandinavia Cold-mining Company (Limited). St. Bathans : Philip McDouall, assistant mine-surveyor. Progress Mines. Reefton. It is gratifying to find that during the past few years the demand for men who have just graduated has exceeded the supply. Surveyors Examinations: R. Thompson, R. M. Mouat, and W. Black succeeded in passing i lie examinations of the Surveyors' Board of Examiners as licensed surveyors. Mine-managers Examination : G. W. Eaton-Turner passed the examination of the Board of Examiners under the Mining Act. gaining a first-class mine-manager's certificate. Post-craduate course: The two-years course of Mr. Norman Shand, A.0.5.M., the present holder of the Berwick-Moreing post-graduate place, expired on the 31st December, 1910. At the