PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



1841. No. 48. 



May 13, 1841. 



The MARQUIS OF NORTKAjVIPTON, President, in the Chair. 



Robert Listen, Esq., and Henry Harpur Spry, Esq., were balloted 

 for, and duly elected into the Society. 



The following papers were read, viz. — 



1. "Meteorological Observations for August, September, and 

 October, 1840, taken on board H.M.S. Erehus and Terror, by and 

 under the direction of Capt. James Clark Ross, R.N., Commander 

 of the Antarctic Expedition." Presented by the Lords Commission- 

 ers of the Admiralty, and communicated by the President of the 

 Royal Society. 



2. " Hourly Meteorological Observations made at Plymouth, in 

 latitude 52° 36' 12", longitude in time 6"^ 55« east, on the 22nd of 

 March, 1841." By Arthur Utting, Esq. Communicated by Capt. 

 Edward Johnson, R.N., F.R.S. 



3. " Barometrical Observations taken at Naples at 9 a.m. on each 

 day during the months of January and February, 1841." By Sir 

 Woodbine Parish, K.C.H., F.R.S. Presented by direction of the 

 Council of the Royal Geographical Society, and communicated by 

 S. H. Christie, Esq., Sec. R.S. 



4. ** Memoir of the case of a gentleman born blind, and success- 

 fully operated upon in the eighteenth year of his age ; with Physio- 

 logical Observations and Experiments." By J. C. August Franz, 

 M.D., M.R.C.S. Communicated by Sir Benjamin C. Brodie, Bart., 

 F.R.S. 



The young gentleman who is the subject of this memoir had been 

 affected from birth with strabismus of both eyes ; the right eye was 

 amaurotic, and the left deprived of sight by the opacity both of the 

 crystalline lens and of its capsule. At the age of seventeen, an ope- 

 ration for the removal of the cataract of the left eye was performed 

 by the author with complete success. On opening the eye for the 

 first time, on the third day after the operation, the patient described 



