SCIENTIFIC
THE HUMAN RETINA:
In a recent note to the Yiemia -Academy Herr Salzer otters an estimate (based on numeration) of the probable number of optic nerve fibres and of retinal cones in a human eye. The number of the.former lie supposes to bo about 4:18,000, that of the latter .>,500,000. ■ This gives seven or eight cones for each nerve fibre, supposing'all fibres of the optic nerve to be connected with cones, and equally distributed amoim them. °
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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 144, 6 August 1880, Page 1 (Supplement)
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