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of the eye across a narrow slit between two walls, now either one of these walls could be taken away, allowing the stimulation to last for one half of the time of movement, and this could be either the first or the second half at pleasure. A plan of the perimeter so arranged is given in Fig. 2. _PBCDB'P_ is the horizontal section of a semicircular perimeter of 30 cm. radius. _E_ is an eye-rest fixed at the centre of the semicircle; _CD_ is a square hole which is closed by the screen _S_ fitted into the front pair of the grooves _GG_. In the center of _S_ and on a level with the eye _E_ is a hole _A_, 2 cm. in diameter, which contains a 'jewel' of red glass. The other two pairs of grooves are made to hold pieces of milk-or ground-glass, as _M_, which may be needed to temper the illumination down to the proper intensity. _L_ is an electric lamp. _B_ and _B'_ are two white beads fixed to the perimeter at the same level as _E_ and _A_, and used as fixation-points. Although the room is darkened, these beads catch enough light to be just visible against the black perimeter, and the eye is able to move from one to the other, or from _A_ to either one, with considerable accuracy. They leave a slight after-image streak, which is, however, incomparably fainter than that left by _A_ (the streak to be studied), and which is furthermore white while that of _A_ is bright red. _B_ and _B'_ are adjustable along a scale of degrees, which is not shown in the figure, so that the arc of eye-movement is variable at will. _W_ is a thin, opaque, perpendicular wall extending from _E_ to _C_, that is, standing on a radius of the perimeter. At _E_ this wall comes to within about 4 mm. of the cornea, and when the eye is directed toward _B_ the wall conceals the red spot _A_ from the pupil. _W_ can at will be transferred to the position _ED_. _A_ is then hidden if the eye looks toward _B'_. The four conditions of eye-movement to be studied are indicated in Fig. 3 (Plate 1.). The location of the retinal stimulation is also shown for each case, as well as the corresponding appearance of the streaks, their approximate length, and above all their localization. For the sake of simplicity the refractive effect of the lens and humors of the eye is not shown, the path of the light-rays being in each case drawn straight. In all four cases the eye moved without stopping, through an arc of 40 deg.. [Illustration: PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW. MONOGRAPH SUPPLE
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