130 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1880. 



The death of John Rice, a member, was announced. 



R. S. Hiiidekoper, M. D., David Townsend, John B. Wood, 

 Thos. Miles, Frances Emily White, M. D., and John S. Capp were 

 elected members. 



The following were elected correspondents : — Robert Caspary, 

 of Konigsberg, Agostino Todaro, of Palermo, J. E. Bommer, of 

 Brussels, Teodoro Caruel, of Pisa, H. T. Geyler,of Frankfort-on- 

 the-Maine, Robert Schomburg. of Adelaide, and A. Inostranzeff. 

 of St. Petersburgh. 



March 2. 



The President, Dr. Ruschenberger, in the chair. 



Twenty-eight persons present. 



The death of Wm. Maxwell Wood, M. D., a correspondent, was 

 announced. 



On a Filaria Reported to have come from a Man. — Prof. Leidy 

 exhibited a large thread-worm, which had been submitted to his 

 examination by Dr. J. J. Woodward, U. S. A. It was recently 

 presented to the Army Medical Museum, at Washington, by Dr. 

 C. L. Garnett, of Buffalo, Putnam Co., West Virginia. Accom- 

 panying the specimen, is the copy of a letter from Dr. Garnett to 

 Dr. Woodward, from which the following is an abstract : " During 

 the winter of 18t6, a man, a common laborer, aged about fiftj^, 

 presented himself to me for treatment having a gleety discharge 

 from the urethra, with a burning sensation during and after mic- 

 turition. Previously, he had been treated for gonorrhoea, and I 

 prescribed accordingly. The patient not improving, applied to 

 other practitioners. In April, 1878, he came to me with a round, 

 vivid-red worm, twenty-six inches in length, (the specimen you 

 now possess) which was alive and very active in its movements, 

 instantly coiling up like a watch-spring on being touched. Having 

 no work on helminthology for reference, the only description I 

 found which appeared to answer to the worm was that of Strongy- 

 lua gigas, in Niemeyer, vol. II, p. 41. The patient is an illiterate 

 man, with no motive for deception. He informed me that he dis- 

 covered the worm protruding from his penis and drew it out 

 without pain or difficulty. He was in much agitation and alarm 

 about the occurrence, fearing, as he said, that "there might be 

 more behind that one." For a few days previous to its passage, 

 his urine was of a milky hue and some time subsequently of a yellow 

 cast and slightly tinged with blood and mingled with mucus. The 

 man is truthful, and no doubt exists in my mind, or in the minds 

 of his neighbors as to the correctness of his statements. I regret 



