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ORDINARY MEETING. 

 4-ni JUNE, 1904. 



Professor R. W. REID, M.D., F.R.C.S., President, 

 in the ('hair. 



The Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 



Mr. G. Stoddart read a paper on " Statistics obtained from Ex- 

 amination of the Eyes of Four Hundred Medical Students ". 



The examinations had been made for the most part by Dr. Usher. 



After a short discussion on Mr. Stoddart's paper Mr. McKerrow 

 read a paper on " Observations on the Skulls of ten Wa Soga 

 Natives," including particulars of the measurements of the skulls. 



This concluded the business of the meeting. 



STATISTICS OBTAINED FEOM THE EXAMINATION OF THE 

 EYES OF FOUE HUNDEED MEDICAL STUDENTS ATTEND- 

 ING ABEEDEEN UNIVEESITY. 



By (r. STODDART, M.A., M.B., Junior Assistant to the Professor of Anatomy, 



Aberdeen University. 



Of the 400 students 380 of them were males and 20 were females. 



The examination of the eyes was conducted in the Anthropo- 

 metrical Laboratory of the Anatomical Department, Marischal College, 

 Aberdeen. This examination consisted in determining the acuteness 

 of vision of each eye separately, before and after the adjustment of 

 suitable correcting lenses. The refraction of each eye was determined 

 separately by the same subjective test. The colour vision was tested 

 by means of Holmgrens wools. The size of pupil, colour of iris, colour 

 of hair and colour of skin, along with other anthropometrical measure- 

 ments not referred to in this paper, were also recorded. With the 

 exception of the observations regarding pigment made by the as- 

 sistants to the professor of anatomy the examination was conducted 

 by Dr. Usher, Ophthalmic Surgeon, Aberdeen Infirmary, and I am 

 indebted to him for his guidance in the preparation of this paper. 



