ard.—Dr. E. A. Ruddiman, professor of materia medica and pharmacy at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, has been appointed chief food and drug inspector of the Department of Agriculture.—Dr. Frederick L. Dunlap, instructor in the University of Michigan, has been appointed associate chemist in the Bureau of Chemistry, and-will be a member of the board of food and drug inspection.
An Italian Association for the Advancement of Science, proposed at Milan last year, has now taken form. The first meeting will be held at Parma in September next, when it is hoped that the sister associations of Europe and America will send delegates.
Mrs. Russell Sage has given the sum of $300,000 to found what will be known as the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology as an adjunct to the City Hospital on Blackwell's Island.—Dr. Lawrence F. Flick, director of the Phipps Institute, Philadelphia, and chairman of the committee on the International Congress of Tuberculosis, which is to be held in Washington in the fall of 1908, announces that he has received $35,000 in subscriptions to a fund of $100,000 which he is raising to meet the necessary expenses.
