_ JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. — 29 
October 6, 1856. 
Vice President, Dr. H. A. Provt, in the chair. 
Dr. Prout exhibited specimens of a new species of Productus, 
from the Carboniferous limestone of St. Louis, of which he was 
preparing a description, under the name of Productus er 
cinctus. 
Dr. Schiel made some remarks on the Bi-sulphuret of ee 
specimens of which were exhibited. He observed that Dr. Turn- 
bull had made use of this article, as a local application, in the treat- 
ment of diseases of the eye. When applied to the eye, or the 
surface of the body, it produced, at first, a sensation of cold; this 
was followed by irritation and burning. Dr. Schiel had made a 
compound, consisting of bi-sulphuret of carbon, 2 parts; alcohol, 
2 parts; chloroform and camphor, each, 1 part; which he had 
used, lly, in Tic Doloureux, Toothache, and Bilious Cholic, 
with marked effect, affording almost instant relief from pain. Bi- 
sulphuret of carbon was made by narod the vapors of dies 
over burning charcoal, 
A letter was read from the Rev. John Higginbotham, of St.’ ” 
Louis, presenting to the Academy five books, containing 212 
plants and shrubs, which had been collected in this s neighborhood : 
: and in the State of Louisiana, in 1828-9, by the late Rt. Rev. Dr. 
