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A comprehensive growth curve based on such total pages was provided in an earlier History of the
Journal. 1 However, to update and upgrade the total contents of the Journal of Dental Research through 1970,
the preceding table is presented which permits analysis of the several kinds of items published over the last half-
century. Included in these extensive figures are the Supplements to the Journal, which began in 1962 and
continued on through 1970 with a total of twenty-one such separately bound booklets. Among these were the
IADR Directories of Membership and a variety of Symposia, including those of the AAAS Nd Section, the
ICOB meetings, and some IADR annual meeting proceedings per se. Only the History of the Journal and the
1969 Biographical Directory (Special Commemorative Supplement to vol. 48) had pagination separate from
that of the Journal.
In the early volumes of the Journal under W. J. G.'s Editorship, the nonscientific articles were numbered
in italic roman numerals and hence, in many citations, were not counted in the final pagination of arabic
numerals per volume. In such citations several kinds of published papers were often lumped together. Thus,
certain references to the total JDR page counts, such as those in The Survey of Dentistry, 13 differ from those in
the preceding table.
MONETARY ASPECTS
Almost all journals, and especially those that carry no advertising, have difficulty in making monetary
ends meet. The wise William Gies was well aware of these problems right from the beginning. Hence he
established an endowment fund for the Journal, so that at its very birth it was born with a proverbial silver
spoon in its mouth. With the first issue of JDR in 1919, there had been $2026 subscribed for the Endowment
Fund, although only $676 had actually been paid. Gies stated forthrightly: "the Journal of Dental Research will
be financed as a University is supported, with public spirited special gifts for this purpose and from a
cumulative permanent endowment fund to be created; also from subscriptions for its successive volumes—not
from advertisements of goods for sale." 14
In many of the early issues, the JDR cited the growth of this fund, including the lengthy list of individual
contributors. By March 1921 the fund, including the accrued interest, amounted to $5356.13, 15 and by 31
December 1922 the fund had grown to $6633.39. 16 In subsequent volumes of JDR, in 1927 and even in 1928, a
short paragraph on the Endowment Fund simply stated that the current monetary status would be published in a
later volume. 17 However, after 1928 no further information was ever published on the Endowment Fund of the
Journal of Dental Research, established so early and apparently securely by William J. Gies.
At the time of W. J. G.'s retirement from Columbia in 1937, a William J. Gies Endowment Committee
for the Journal was appointed by ad interim action of the IADR Council. The Chairman was A. H. Merritt, and
J. D. Eby, F. C. Kemple, F. S. McKay, and B. B. Palmer were the other members of the Committee, which was
formed to raise funds for placing the Journal on a sound financial basis. 18 The Committee was quite successful
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