Literary notices
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 1905
- Weight
- 117 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0092-7015
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โฆ Synopsis
Vision in Man and Other Vertebrates, with its Kclntion to the Decussation of the Optic Nerves, the Ocular Movements, and the Pupil Light KeRex. Rrnk, 1904, 27. 107-147.
'Stereoscopic' vision differs from 'binocular' in that in the former the images of a given object fall siinultaneously on homonymous sides of the two retinae, while in the latter they may fall either homonymously or heteronyniously. Now from examining experimentally the optic chiasm in the toad, chameleon, pigeon, owl, and rabbit, and from the reports of others on the cat, mouse and rat, the author -concludes (p. 107) that "The decussation of the optic nerves at the chiasma is complete in all fishes, arnphibia, reptile8 and birds, whether possessed of binocular vision or not ;" and this notwithstanding that (p. I I I ) "In
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