logologo-optometry

New means of studying color blindness and normal foveal color vision with some results and their genetical implications

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Catalogue Number: 1368
New means of studying color blindness and normal foveal color vision with some results and their genetical implications
Category: Book
Sub-Category: Book of historical note
Author: WALLS Gordon Lynn, MATHEWS Ravenna W
Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1952
Time Period: 1940 to 1999
Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Berkeley and Los Angeles
Publisher/Manufacturer: University of California Press
Description Of Item: Grey card cover, 172 pages including bibliography, 3 Figures in text
Historical Significance: Gordon Lynn Walls (1905-1962) was Professor of Physiological Optics and Optometry at the School of Optometry in the University of California, Berkeley. He obtained his B.S. from Tufts in mechanical engineering (1926), AM from Harvard 1927 and ScD Zoology 1931. He did not pursue engineering because of a self-claimed difficulty with mathematics ("I flunked every math course I ever took!") and because of a fascination with zoology that he developed during a summer course at Woods Hole. His teachers at Harvard arbitrarily gave him a problem concerning the photomechanical changes in the retina, which launched his career in vision. He is famed for his 785 page book The Vertebrate Eye.1942 This 785-page classic contains about 200 illustrations, many of which Gordon Walls drew himself. See Cat No 1368. This book is an idiosyncratic discourse on colour vision, abnormal colour vision and genetics. Some ideas are wrong, some are novel and intriguiging. The references to and discussion of over-looked books and articles is invaluable. See Walls' obituary at http://crsltd.com/research-topics/walls/obituary.html. The picture is from Duke-Elder Vol 1 Evolution of the eye. Walls was so famous for his work on the evolution of the eye that Duke-Elder chose to feature his photograph in his 15 volume 'System of Ophthalmology'
How Acquired: Donated by Barry L Cole
Date Acquired: Dec 2009
Condition: Good. Spine binding damaged and repaired with selotape
Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note

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