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which had been extracted by him from the eye of a man, who 

 was ignorant of its having entered it. The presence of some 

 foreign substance in the ball of the eye was inferred from the 

 constant inflammation kept up in the organ. 



Stated Meeting, December 1. 



Present, eighteen members. 



Dr. Patterson, Vice President, in the Chair. 



Letters were received: — 



From the President of Harvard University, dated Oct. IS, 

 1843, acknowledging the receipt of No. 36 of the Proceed- 

 ings:— 



From William B. Rally, Esq., dated Baltimore, Nov. 20, 

 1843, on the subject of a proposed scientific correspondence 

 between the Royal Academy of Bohemia and this Society: — ■ 



From Sir William Jardine, dated Jardine Hall (Scotland), 

 Oct. 28, 1843, in regard to his work on the Scottish Salmo- 

 nidse. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Journal Asiatique. Quatrieme Serie. Tome I. Nos. 5 et 6. Mai 

 et Juin, 1843. 8vo. — From the Asiatic Society of Paris. 



Annales des Mines. Quatrieme Serie. Tome III. lere Livraison. 

 Paris, 1843. 8vo. — From the Engineers of Mines. 



Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the Ameri- 

 can Philosophical Society. Vol. III. Part I. Philadelphia, 1843. 

 8vo. — One copy presented, by Samuel BrecTc, Esq., and one copy 

 by Job R. Tyson, Esq. 



Journal of the Franklin Institute. Vol. VI. Nov. 1843. 8vo. — 

 From Dr. R. M. Patterson. 



The African Repository, and Colonial Journal. Vol. XIX. No. 11. 

 November, 1843. 8vo. — From the American Colonization So- 

 ciety. 



A Manual of Gold and Silver Coins of all Nations, struck within the 



