630 BOOK REVIEWS of patients in whom trachoma had been positively diagnosed (MacCallan). It was further intended to do a number of animal experiments, using the Paul- Bunnel reaction. Someone who reads this may be interested in developing these ideas. (Signed) Janos Majoros, M.D., VIII. Brody Sandor-u. 6., Budapest, Hungary. LUMINOUS CROSS FOR FIXATION Editor, American Journal of Ophthalmology : I have not seen the following idea published, yet it has proved valuable in my practice: It is difficult to do a fundus examination on old persons with small pupils, who cannot fix the eyes on an object. With nothing to fixate on, they continue to move their eyes. I bought a small bottle of luminous paint and a brush, then painted two pieces of adhesive tape. On the wall directly in front of a chair in the dark room, I pasted these two pieces of tape in the shape of a cross. The cross was then covered with Scotch tape to hold it in better position and to keep the surface clean. (Signed) Sydney S. Deutch, Fall River, Massachusetts. BOOK REVIEWS TABULAE BIOLOGICAE. Volume XXII (Oculus). Pars I. Uitfeverij, Dr. W. Junk, Amsterdam, 1947. Of this monumental collection of biologic data, a volume of 408 pages, the first part of four on the eye, has appeared. It is fittingly prefaced by an appreciation of the work and enthusiasm of Kurt Steindorf, without which this great undertaking could never have been launched. Three other parts are in preparation in which data on vegetative physiology and physiologic optics will be presented. Like its predecessors the book is intended for reference, and, as a repository of every imaginable fact that can be expressed in numbers, it could not be surpassed. This volume presents in tabular form all available data arranged in several chapters each of which has a most extensive list of references. In the first chapter, Hermann Kahmann deals with the eyes of invertebrate animals. Fifty pages of tables record such facts as the number and position of eyes, size and position of various ocular structures, and extent of visual fields of innumerable species of animals. The second chapter of more than a hundred pages by Stefanie Oppenheimer deals with metric and descriptive characteristics of the human and animal eye. The section which deals with the measurement of the bony orbit of primates is accompanied by 54 figures on 11 plates. The other part of the chapter deals with the lids and most extensively with the color of iris in relation to race, heredity, age, and pigmentation of hair. In the third brief chapter Dejean and Granel describe the eye of the vertebrate embryo ; 12 pages suffice for this. The fourth chapter by Steindorff presents the descriptive anatomy of the eye of vertebrates and man in 126 pages of tabulation and an extensive bibliography. In the remaining pages Nordmann discusses the anatomy and physiology of the pupil in vertebrates, and Ascher discusses the intraocular pressure and intra- vascular pressure in the eyes. The index also lists those contributions in Volumes I to XXI of Tabulae Biologicae which refer to the eye. F. H. Haessler. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRE- SCRIBING AND FITTING OF CON- TACT LENSES. By Dickinson and Hall. London, England. Hammond and Hammond and Co. Ltd., 1946. 168 pages. Index and 97 illustrations, Price, one guinea.

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630 BOOK REVIEWS

of patients in whom trachoma had been positively diagnosed (MacCallan).

It was further intended to do a number of animal experiments, using the Paul-Bunnel reaction. Someone who reads this may be interested in developing these ideas.

(Signed) Janos Majoros, M.D., VIII . Brody Sandor-u. 6., Budapest, Hungary.

LUMINOUS CROSS FOR FIXATION

Editor, American Journal of Ophthalmology :

I have not seen the following idea published, yet it has proved valuable in my practice: It is difficult to do a fundus examination on old persons with small pupils, who cannot fix the eyes on an object. With nothing to fixate on, they continue to move their eyes.

I bought a small bottle of luminous paint and a brush, then painted two pieces of adhesive tape. On the wall directly in front of a chair in the dark room, I pasted these two pieces of tape in the shape of a cross. The cross was then covered with Scotch tape to hold it in better position and to keep the surface clean.

(Signed) Sydney S. Deutch, Fall River, Massachusetts.

BOOK REVIEWS TABULAE BIOLOGICAE. Volume XXII

(Oculus). Pars I. Uitfeverij, Dr. W. Junk, Amsterdam, 1947. Of this monumental collection of biologic

data, a volume of 408 pages, the first part of four on the eye, has appeared. It is fittingly prefaced by an appreciation of the work and enthusiasm of Kurt Steindorf, without which this great undertaking could never have been launched. Three other parts are in preparation in which data on vegetative physiology and physiologic optics will be presented. Like its predecessors the book

is intended for reference, and, as a repository of every imaginable fact that can be expressed in numbers, it could not be surpassed.

This volume presents in tabular form all available data arranged in several chapters each of which has a most extensive list of references. In the first chapter, Hermann Kahmann deals with the eyes of invertebrate animals. Fifty pages of tables record such facts as the number and position of eyes, size and position of various ocular structures, and extent of visual fields of innumerable species of animals. The second chapter of more than a hundred pages by Stefanie Oppenheimer deals with metric and descriptive characteristics of the human and animal eye. The section which deals with the measurement of the bony orbit of primates is accompanied by 54 figures on 11 plates. The other part of the chapter deals with the lids and most extensively with the color of iris in relation to race, heredity, age, and pigmentation of hair.

In the third brief chapter Dejean and Granel describe the eye of the vertebrate embryo ; 12 pages suffice for this. The fourth chapter by Steindorff presents the descriptive anatomy of the eye of vertebrates and man in 126 pages of tabulation and an extensive bibliography. In the remaining pages Nordmann discusses the anatomy and physiology of the pupil in vertebrates, and Ascher discusses the intraocular pressure and intra-vascular pressure in the eyes.

The index also lists those contributions in Volumes I to XXI of Tabulae Biologicae which refer to the eye.

F. H. Haessler.

AN INTRODUCTION TO T H E PRESCRIBING AND FITTING O F CONTACT LENSES. By Dickinson and Hall. London, England. Hammond and Hammond and Co. Ltd., 1946. 168 pages. Index and 97 illustrations, Price, one guinea.