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University and Hospital as having the appropriate institutional resources for such an institute.

Dr. Wilmer came to Johns Hopkins in 1925 and after four years the Wilmer In­stitute was dedicated, with Sir John Herbert Parson, Hofrath Ernst Fuchs, and Dr. George E. deSchweinitz in attendance. Since then the history of the Institute has been written in medical, surgical, and research advances. Dr. Wilmer retired July 1, 1934, and was succeeded by Alan Woods who had been assistant director of the Institute since its dedicaton. A. Edward Maumenee succeeded Alan Woods in 1955. He had been senior resi­dent of the Institute in 1942.

The volume on the Wilmer Institute tells the history of the first 50 years of the Wilmer Institute. M. Elliott Randolph, associate professor emeritus of ophthal­mology and senior resident at the Wilmer in 1937, tells of the Wilmer and Wood years, 1925-1955. Robert B. Welch, asso­ciate professor of ophthalmology and sen­ior resident in 1959, tells the story of the Maumenee years. The happy custom at the Wilmer Institute of annual pictures of the house staff provides one with a glimpse of many ophthalmic greats as they began and continued their residency studies. Separate chapters are devoted to Annette Burgess, Jonas Friedenwald, Ed Maumenee, Louise Sloan, Frank Walsh, William Holland Wilmer, and Alan Woods.

The major focus is a year-by-year de­scription of the house staff and their sub­sequent careers, the development of the various special clinics, and the research activities at the Institute. Norman Ash-ton's remarks on the occasion of the dedi­cation of the Woods building read as well now as they did then. Reading the book one has the pleasant sense of reviewing a college yearbook and finding one's teach­ers, classmates, and colleagues whom one recognizes and remembers. I wish every

major institution in the country could provide intimate memoirs such as this. The affection and pride of the authors for Wilmer and its people are apparent on every page and well it might be for Wil-mer's excellence is reflected in the teach­ers and practitioners it has provided our nation.

FRANK W. N E W E L L

SYMPOSIA Basic Mechanisms of Ocular Motility and

Their Clinical Implications. Proceed­ings of the International Symposium— Wenner-Gren Center, Stockholm, June 4-6, 1974. Edited by Gunnar Lenner-strand and Paul Bach-y-Rita. Cloth-bound, 584 pages, table of contents, index, over 200 black and white figures. $60

RAGNAR GRANIT: Opening address:comparing some control mechanisms in skeletal and eye mus­cles

JORGE A. ALVARADO AND CAROL VAN HORN: Mus­cle cell types of the cat inferior oblique

ROBERT MAYR: Discussion

JAMES E. MILLER: Aging changes in extraocular muscles

JAN LÄNNERGREN: Structure and function of twitch and slow fibres in amphibian skeletal muscle

ERIC KUGELBERG: The motor unit: histochemical and functional correlations

PAUL BACH-Y-RITA: Structural-functional correla­tions in eye muscle fibers. Eye muscle propriocep-tion

ERMANNO MANNI AND ROBERT S. JAMPEL: Discus­sion

ROBERT D. REINECKE AND KURT SIMONS: Phoria and EOM afference: preliminary support for a new theory

GUNNAR LENNERSTRAND: Motor units in eye mus­cles

CARTER COMPTON COLLINS: The human oculomo­tor control system

ALAN B. SCOTT: Strabismus; muscle forces and innervations

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KEN NAKAYAMA: Coordination of extraocular mus­cles

ARTHUR JAMPOLSKY: Coordination of extraocular muscles; clinical aspects

BJÖRN TENGROTH: Synopsis of panel discussion

G. MELVILL JONES AND A. GONSHOR: Goal-directed flexibility in the vestibulo-ocular reflex arc

NILS G. HENRIKSSON AND A L F NILSSON: Plasticity; dynamic properties of the vestibulo-ocular arc

WOLFGANG PRECHT: Cerebellar influences on eye movements

JOHANNES DICHGANS AND RICHARD JUNG: Oculo­motor abnomalities due to cerebellar lesions

JOHANNES DICHGANS: Spinal afferences to the ocu­lomotor system: physiological and clinical aspects

V. H E N N AND B. COHEN: Activity in eye muscle motoneurons and brainstem units during eye move­ments

GUNTRAM KOMMERELL: Clinical clues for the orga­nization of horizontal quick eye movements and subsequent periods of fixation

D. A. ROBINSON: Oculomotor control signals

GERHARD VOSSIUS: Discussion

WILLIAM F. HOYT AND LARS FRISEN: Supranuclear ocular motor control; some clinical considerations, 1974

M. D. SANDERS: Discussion

ROBERT M. STEINMAN: Oculomotor effects on vi­sion

GUNTER K. VON NOORDEN: Oculomotor effect on vision; clinical aspects

DAVID G. COGAN: Synopsis of panel discussion

GERALD WESTHEIMER: Basic mechanisms of human ocular motility; retrospect and prospect

ROBERT B. DAROFF: Summary of clinical presenta­tions

ROLF ECKMILLER: Differences in the activity of eye-position coded neurons in the alert monkey during fixation and tracking movements

Ν. H. BARMACK: The role of the extraocular moto-neuron membrane in the regulation of "saccadic discharge"

KURT-PETER SCHAEFER, DIETRICH LOTHAR MEY­ER, ULRICH BÜTTNER, AND DITMAR SCHOTT: The effect of head position on oculomotor discharge patterns in rabbits

P. GOGAN, J. P. GUERITAUD, G. HORCHOLLE-BOSSAVIT, AND S. TYC-DUMONT: Electrotonic inter­action between motoneurons of the abducens nu­cleus of the cat

R. ALVARADO-MALLART, C. BUISSERET-DELMAS, J. F. GUERITAUD, AND G. HORCHOLLE-BOSSAVIT: Primary mesencephalic projections of the rectus Iateralis muscle afférents in cat: physiological and anatomical evidence

EMILIO BIZZI: Central control of eye and head movements in monkeys

V. C. ABRAHAMS, F. RICHMOND, AND P. K. ROSE: Basic physiology of the head-eye movement system

H. COLLEWIJN AND H. J. KLEINSCHMIDT: Vestibulo-ocular and optokinetic reactions in the rabbit: changes during 24 hours of normal and abnormal interaction

BURKHART FISCHER AND JÜRGEN KRÜGER: Re­sponses of retinal and geniculate neurons to con­trast shifts and their relation to eye movements

GENEVIÈVE M. HADDAD AND BARBARA J. WINTER-SON: Effect of flicker on oculomotor performance

T. VILIS AND J. S. OUTERBRIDGE: Dynamic proper­ties of cat extraocular muscle

E. MIRA, R. SCHMID, AND M. STEFANELLI: Clinical analysis of vestibularly induced eye movements based on a mathematical model of the vestibulo-ocular reflex

P. H, LANDERS AND A. TAYLOR: Transfer function analysis of the vestibulo-ocular reflex in the con­scious cat

SYOZO YASUI AND LAURENCE R. YOUNG: Eye movements during after-image tracking under sin­usoidal and random vestibular stimulation

R. TXUMER: Three reaction mechanisms of the saccadic system in response to a double jump

W. BECKER AND R. JÜRGENS: Saccadic reactions to double-step stimuli: evidence for model feedback and continuous information uptake

R. JÜRGENS AND W. BECKER: IS there a linear addition of saccades and pursuit movements

TETSUO ISHII AND JUN-ICHI SUZUKI: Vertigo and nystagmus of inner ear origin: a study based on electron microscopic findings

STEPHEN RÉTHY: Disaccommodation: habit-reversal in esotropia

ROBERT S. JAMPEL: Ocular torsion and the function of the vertical extraocular muscles

W. SCHLOTE AND F. KÖRNER: Chronic progressive

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external ophthalmoplegia; a neuro-muscular disor­der

G. M. SCHOR AND M. C. FLOM: Eye position control and visual acuity in strabismus amblyopia

S. HEYWOOD AND G. RATCLIFF: Long-term oculo­motor consequences of unilateral colliculectomy in man

F. H. KÖRNER: Non-visual control of human sacca-dic eye movements

SYMPOSIA Current Concepts of the Vitreous. Edited

by Kurt A. Gitter. St. Louis, C. V. Mosby, 1976. Clothbound, 289 pages, table of contents, index, 271 black and white figures. $31.50

J. A. SHIELDS: Surgical anatomy of the vitreous

J. A. SHIELDS: Pathology of the vitreous

N. S. JAFFE: Operative loss of vitreous

N. S. JAFFE : Postoperative cataract complications related to the vitreous

D. KASNER: History of vitreetomy: a personal expe­rience

R. G. MICHELS AND S. J. RYAN, JR.: Preoperative evaluation of patients for vitreous surgery

D. J. COLEMAN: Ultrasonic evaluation of the vitre­ous

N. G. DOUVAS: Vitreetomy instrumentation, roto-extractor indications, and techniques and results

R. G. MICHELS AND S. J. RYAN, JR.: Vitreetomy in diabetes and other disorders

E. OKUN: Pars plana vitreetomy in advanced diabet­ic retinopathy—eighty consecutive cases performed with the Douvas roto-extractor

G. A. PEYMAN, F. U. HUAMONTE, AND M. F. G O L D ­BERG: Clinical experiences with the vitrophage

D. J. COLEMAN: Role of vitreetomy in trauma

E. OKUN: Pars plana vitreetomy for conditions other than advanced diabetic retinopathy

K. A. GITTER AND G. COHEN: Complications of vitreetomy