HARRIS, Chapin A., dentist, born in Pompey, Onondaga County, New York, in 1806; died in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1860. He studied medicine, and settled in Ohio, but afterward removed to Baltimore, where he practised dentistry until his death. He founded Baltimore dental college (chartered in 1839), and was for some time its professor of dental surgery. He edited the "American Journal of Dental Science" from its establishment in 1839 till 1858, and was a contributor to other dental and medical journals. He is the author of " Principles and Practice of Dental Surgery" (Baltimore, 1839); "Characteristics of the Human Teeth" (Baltimore, 1841); "Diseases of the Maxillary Sinus" (Philadelphia, 1842); "Dictionary of Dental Science" (1849); and has edited "Fox's Natural History and Diseases of the Human Teeth," with additions (1846; 2d ed., Philadelphia, 1855).