CHAPTER II

THE EVIDENCE OF THE ORGANS OF VISION

Different kinds of eye--Simple and compound retinas--Upright and

inverted retinas--Median eyes--Median or pineal eyes of Ammocoetes

and their optic ganglia--Comparison with other median eyes--Lateral

eyes of vertebrates compared with lateral eyes of crustaceans--

Peculiarities of the lateral eye of the lamprey--Meaning of the

optic diverticula--Evolution of vertebrate eyes--Summary 68

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