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HAVING read with much interest the recent correspondence in NATURE on this subject, I am forwarding the results of some observations which I recently made to determine the degree of acuteness of vision possessed by the natives of the islands of Bougainville Straits, in the Solomon Group.
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GUPPY, H. Civilisation and Eyesight. Nature 31, 503–504 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/031503b0
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