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ONE of the functions of science is to collect information and to classify it. Some of the information so collected may appear to any one person to be trivial or of little importance, but let that person remember that he is not the only oyster in the bed, and he will realize that the sand grains around him may become pearls for others. To one interested in the activities of the human eye there may seem to be little significance in measurements which relate the width of the ocellus of an ant to the breadth of its head ; but to another, interested in the behaviour of ants, this information may be of far more value than statistics on the occurrence of blondes in Austria, or the relation between intraocular pressure and the thymus gland. The first part of "Oculus" contains collected numerical data on the structure and anatomy of eyes of all types, on the behaviour of the pupil and on vascular pressures in the eye ; and the reader will find a wide diversity of subject-matter, including such topics as those mentioned above. The net is cast wide and the information collected is vast and various. Three further parts of the book are to follow, so that almost every aspect of the eye will be dealt with, each by a different author.
Tabulæ Biologicæ
Vol. 22: Oculus, Pars 1. Editores: K. Steindorff F. P. Fischer J. S. Friedenwald Arnold Sorsby. Pp. viii + 408. (Amsterdam: Dr. W. Junk, 1947.) 70 fl.
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WILLMER, E. Tabulæ Biologicæ. Nature 162, 910 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162910a0
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