PREFACE V 



at a special meeting of the society held for the purpose, at 

 which no other business shall be transacted." 



No better method could have been adopted for paying 

 tribute to the character and attainments of Sir William 

 Bowman than the institution of such a lectureship. Great 

 as were his own original contributions to ophthalmology, 

 he probably did still greater work for it by the stimulating 

 and kindly help he rendered to others. It seems, therefore, 

 most appropriate that his name should continue to be associ- 

 ated with original work, not only that of his own country- 

 men, but also that of distinguished ophthalmologists from 

 other parts of the world. 



The Bowman Lecture w r hich is here reprinted from Vol. 

 XLI of the Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society 

 is the twenty-second that has been given. The names of 

 those w'ho have delivered the preceding twenty-one are 

 as follows: Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, F.R.S.; J. Huglings 

 Jackson, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S.; Prof. Zehender (Rostock); 

 Henry Power; Sir Henry Swanzy; Prof. Hansen Grut 

 (Copenhagen); Priestley Smith; R. Marcus Gunn; Prof. 

 E. Fuchs (Vienna); Sir F. W. Mott, K.B.E., M.D., F.R.S.; 

 Prof. Sattler (Leipzig); Edward Nettleship, F.R.S.; E. 

 Landolt, M.D. (Paris); Sir George Berry, M.D., LL.D.; 

 v. Morax, M.D. (Paris). 



The writer of this lecture cannot claim to have been a 

 pupil of Bowman's, only a pupil of several of his pupils. 

 From their lips and example he has, however, learned to 

 reverence the work of their master and to try and follow 

 humbly in his footsteps. 



In the Transactions the lecture appeared under the title 

 of " Changes in the Visual Organs Correlated with the Adop- 

 tion of Arboreal Life and the Assumption of the Erect Pos- 

 ture." In the reproduction of it in book form a shorter title 



