PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
I. The Croonian Lecture on Muscular Motion. By Everard 
Home, Esq. F. R. S. 
Read November 12, 1795. 
In the Croonian Lecture which I had the honour of laying 
before this learned Society last year, I endeavoured to prove, 
that the adjustment of the eye to different distances could 
take place independent of the crystalline lens ; and when this 
was the case, it appeared to arise from a change in the curva- 
ture of the cornea. 
I propose in the present lecture to prosecute the inquiry ; 
and it will be found in this, as well as in the former, that I 
have received the most essential assistance from Mt.Ramsden, 
who continues to interest himself in the investigation, and has 
made all the optical experiments. 
As this was a new mode of explaining the adjustment of the 
eye, and differed from the theories that have been previously 
formed upon the subject, it was thought right to consider it 
with caution, to pay attention to all the objections that could 
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