According to its scientific programs, only once in its long history has the attention of the American Ophthalmological Society been called to drusen (hyaline bodies) of the optic papilla. This was in a paper read by de Schweinitz in 1891, the first American contribution on drusen of the papilla. It was based on a single case, and it was unique in that the author reported the result of not only the clinical but also the postmortem examination. The concretions were confined to the papilla and were found nowhere else, although a careful search was made of the optic nerves in their entire lengths and of the brain. Strange to say, since 1921, except for a brief paper published by Goldstein and Givner in 1933, this subject has received but scant notice in the literature. Clinically and pathologically drusen of the papilla are rare. They are still rarer in the retina.