OUR THIRD EYE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2198, 10 July 1914, Page 3

OUR THIRD EYE

... '.'■■ ~.. ' '■—>'' "• '"" A - MYSTERY ■ OF THE HUMAN .' ' - : BRAIN. ",.-" ■ -,:■' In. the course .of his remarks'on the personalities that were, included in-.tlie party of British Scientists .that are to visit New Zealand shortly, at Monday's meeting in' the .P-roT fessor Easterfield itientio'ned iProfessprArthur Dendyi D.gcii-F:R.S., .Profesri sor of Zoology in tho King's College, .London, who was a man of very high ■attainments, and:one who' woiil &-ke of : especial, interest,.to. New- '.Zealanders owing to the study he. .had, made of tho tuataralecch.fi. The professor said that between, the' Jobe's of. tho brain of • man thore was at tlw : top a small body the: nature of ivbich had been a problem for discussion since tho seventeenth century. It was.the only part of the brain that was not paired, and was at one time declared by some to be the seat of the soul. Professor Dendy had; discovero<l that the tuatara (a native of < New Zealand and -the' oldest form of lizard life' on earth) had above tha same'place'iii,its head a little: window, .and the organ was better developed thnn in the-huniaii species'..-. .It was, it seems,..the.remains; of an old eye, and the conclusion -arrived at is , that bur very remote ancestors had a third.eye which enabled them to see upward 'as well as forward. V .;■'. : -