Eye Bank Operation -- Transplanting the cornea of an eye at the Royal Melbourne Hospital today to restore the sight of a patient. This is the first time the hospital has drawn from its new "eye bank". It is for work such as this that the hospital seeks ?100,000 in its centenary appeal. Delicate Operation. Transplanting the cornea of an eye to restore the sight a 25-year-old man at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. This was the first operation of the kind to be carried out under the newly-established Eye Bank. April 26, 1948.