TRANSLATION. 
On the SvRuctTuURE and PuystoLocy of the RETINA. 
By Professor Max ScHuttze. 
Tue paper of which we here give an abstract has just 
appeared in the Jast number of the author’s ‘Archiv f. Mikro- 
skop. Anatomie,’ in which it occupies more than 100 pages, 
and is illustrated with eight quarto plates. Itis undoubtedly 
one of the most interesting and important contributions to our 
knowledge of the very difficult structure of which it treats that 
has ever appeared, and it may be taken as giving an almost 
exhaustive account of all that is known on the subject, 
together with much, more especially in the physiological part 
of the subject, altogether new ; and we deeply regret that our 
space prevents our giving a more lengthy notice of its con- 
tents, or, what would have been very desirable, a complete 
trauslation of it. 
In his general account of the structure of the retina we do 
not perceive that Professor Schultze differs very materially. 
from most later writers on the subject. What he says re- 
specting it may, however, be very briefly stated as follows: 
The retina in man is composed of a fibrous or trabecular 
framework, composed of connective tissue, and which serves 
as a support to the nervous or sentient elements. The fibrous 
framework consists of an outer and an inner membrana 
limitans, connected together by a network of fibres, the prin- 
cipal of which, passing from one limiting membrane to the 
other, constitute the “radial fibres of Miiller.” These are 
connected by irregular lateral fibres, so that the whole con- 
stitutes, speaking generally, a sort of wide trabecular net- 
work; but at two special levels in the retina the fibrous 
tissue forms a very close, almost membraniform plexus, the 
