The Foreign Relations Committee, to whose jurisdiction has been referred certain foreign educational matters affecting the interests of the National Association of Dental Faculties, has been in receipt of a great mass of correspondence concerning the status of the distinctive American dental degree in Europe, and the effect upon public opinion there of the almost open sale of diplomas issued by fraudulently conducted but regularly chartered schools in the State of Illinois, and their quasi-recognition by the Illinois State Board of Dental Examiners, who, it is charged, have ad mitted to the State dental examination and granted permits to practise to foreign possessors of these irregular degrees obtained, in some instances, after their having been in this country for less than a month.At the last meeting of the National Association of Dental Faculties, upon the recommendation of the Foreign Relations Committee, the work of the suppression of the irregular and fraudulent schools was placed in the hands of the Committee on Law, but as the first-named committee is in constant communication with American and other dentists abroad, and with our own government and its officers, in relation to the condition of the American degree in foreign countries, it has been deemed best, at the suggestion of such correspondents, to furnish our dental journals with abstracts from a few of these communications, that the profession in America may be made aware of the consequences resulting from the vicious character of some of the Illinois legis lation.The first instalment of this was furnished without com