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Journal Cjf Insanity. | April, HV>. ed his situation for ih>- purpos- of superintending the Asylum for the Insane, now building in Rhode Island. The Legislaluri: ol' the Slate of New Jersey, ha* recently appropriated 1(1,000 dollars for the purchase of ■ location and farm, and 35,900 dollars lor the erection of a State Lunatic Asylum. We have heard that Indiana has also made an appropriation for a like purpose, and the Legisla- tures of several other States, have petitions before them, asking for (similar In- stitutions. We understand Dr. James Dates, of Norridgcwoek, has been chosen Super- intendent of the Maine Insane Hospital. Ilufus Woodward, M. ])., has heen appointed Assistant Physician of the State Lunatic Hospital, Worcester, Mass. He is the son of :he distinguished Superintendent of that establishment. Lectures on Insanity by M. Btlillarger ol the Salpetnere llospif-il, Paris, and by Dr. Conolly, of Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, London, are to be published in the London Lancet, commencing this month. OBITUARY. Died at Hudson, N. Y., February i0, 1845., Samuej, White, M. D., Prin- cipal of the Hudson Lunatic Asylum, aged 68 years. In the death of this es- timable man, the community in which he resided have met with a great loss. For more than a quarter of a century, Dr. White held a high rank as a Physi- cian and Surgeon, and as a citizen and Christian. He was born in Coventry, Conn., Feb. 2.'), 1777, and pursued the study of medicine and surgery, with Dr. Phillip Turner, of Norwich, Conn., a disting- uished surgeon in the army of the Revolution. He commenced his professional career at Hudson, in 17!)7, and married in 1791). His practice soon became extensive, and he was often called especially as a surgeon, to a great distance. In 1823, he was elected Professor of Obstetrics and Practical Surgery in the Berkshire Medical Institution, Pittsfield, Mass., which situation, after having given two courses of lectures he resigned. Owing to the occurrence of insanity in his own family, by which his domes- tic enjoyment was interrupted, he was led to pay much attention to this disease, and in 1830, he established a private Lunatic Asylum, at Hudson, which he successfully conducted, and which is still continued by his son. In 1843, he was elected President of the N. Y. State Medical Society, and delivered an cx- cellent address on Insanity, which was published by the Society. In October, 1614, he attended the meeting of the Medical Superintendents of American Institutions fcr the Insane, at Philadelphia, and was chosen Vice-President of the Association. Soon after this, )?' health began to fail, his disease assumed a cachetic form, and he gradually declined until his death. Of Dr. While it rnav be said that he discharged the various duties of a long ft'd active professional life with ability and in a truly Christian spirit, ever bear- i r» in mind, the uvixiin, ."Nun nobis -.olum, scd tc.o niundc nan."