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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 

 WEST JERSEY RAILROAD COMPANY. 



for 



Camden, January 19, 1883. 

 EXAMINATION OF SIGHT AND HEARING OF 

 Janaes A. Morris, aged twenty-two, employed as Locomotive Fireman, Applicant 



ACUTKNES8 OF VISION. 



The number of the series seen at 

 twenty feet distant. 



Right eye . 

 Left eye 



RANGE OP VISION. 



Least number of inches at which type ; PJCTljt gyp 

 D — 0,5. in test-type pamphlet can be i . ,°. , ■^ ' 



4| inches. 



read. 



Left eye, 

 4| inches. 



FIELD OP VISION. 



Good or defective 



Good. 



Color-Sense. 



Selection prompt or hesitating . 

 Prompt. 



Hearing. 



Remarks : 



Escaping steam prevented watch-test. 



J. J. Burleigh, Examiner. 



Acuteness, right eye defective. Range, good. Field, good. Color-sense, defective. 



Hearing, see Remarks. JOS. CRAWFORD, Superintendent. 



Notb. — Those approved marked " Appd." 



Those not approved marked "Not appd." 



Fac-simile of one of the blanks. 



and intensity, and the degree of color-defect measured by means of the 

 ratios that exist between the sizes of the openings transmitting the col- 

 ored light and the distances at which the man may be placed ; the 

 small opening which should be seen by the normal eye at five metres 

 distant, is in diameter one millimetre, while the largest, twenty milli- 

 metres, when used at five metres, if not recognized, shows -^ of color- 



