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DR. LINDSAY JOHNSONP'S work, in the investigation of the deep anatomy of the mammalian eye as displayed by the ophthalmoscope, has been of a very extensive and persevering, not to say of a very adventurous character; and the volume before us, containing his contribution on the subject to the Transactions of the Royal Society, represents no more than a fraction of the material which he has collected, and which he intends, we understand, one day to publish. Not the least interesting part of it will be that which will deal with his methods, with the perils occasionally attendant upon them, and with the contrivances by means of which a living lion and a living whale were compelled to submit themselves to ophthalmoscopic examination. Mirror in hand, Dr. Johnson has not only visited the zoological gardens of many countries, but also the native haunts of many wild creatures; and in the book before us some of his discoveries are displayed in twenty-six plates, containing fifty coloured drawings of eyegrounds, beautifully finished and exquisitively reproduced in chromo-lithography, and in three plates with drawings in black and white, showing variations in the forms of persistent hyaloid artery, rudimentary forms of pecten, and different types of the appendages which are found on the pupillary margins of many of the ungulata.
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The Variations in the Mammalian Eye 1 . Nature 65, 137–138 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065137b0
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