AN OUTLINE OF THE EMBRYOLOGY 

 OF THE EYE. 



[The drawings referred to by numbers will be found on the plates at 

 the back of the volume.] 



In endeavoring to present a clear and 

 comprehensive description of the development 

 of the eye, it has seemed to me best to give 

 first a brief and purely schematic sketch of the 

 processes which take place, explaining them 

 with diagrams, and next to give an accurate 

 histological description of the various parts of 

 the eye in their successive phases of develop- 

 ment, illustrating these descriptions with care- 

 ful drawings from actual preparations. It 

 will be noticed that the text is not burdened 

 with frequent references to the voluminous 

 literature of the subject. The microscopic 

 descriptions are the unprejudiced interpreta- 



