PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
I. The Croonian Lecture on Muscular Motion. By Everard 
Home, Esq. F. R. S. 
Head November 13, 1794. 
When I had the honour last year of presenting an apology 
for the unfinished state in which Mr. Hunter left the Croo- 
nian lecture, I laid before this learned Society the plan upon 
which he meant to proceed ; but my mind was at that time 
unfitted to prosecute so arduous an inquiry. 
The progress Mr. Hunter had made in this investigation 
enabled him to prove the crystalline humour of the eye to be 
laminated, and the laminae to be composed of fibres ; but the 
use to which these fibres are applied in the oeconomy of the 
eye he had not ascertained, although several experiments were 
instituted with that view : his opinion was certainly in favour 
of their being muscular, for the purpose of adjusting the eye 
to different distances by their contraction and relaxation, 
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