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Visual Pigments.

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Fortschritte der Chemie Organischer Naturstoffe / Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products / Progrès dans la Chimie des Substances Organiques Naturelles

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The study of vision concerns physical optics, chemistry, biochemistry, anatomy, electrophysiology, psychology as well as other disciplines in comparative zoology. Ophthalmology is a wide subject [cf. PIRIE and VAN HEYNINGEN (I59)], quite apart from defects and diseases of the eye. Progress in so far-ranging a subject is bound to be uneven and no surprise should be felt if investigators in one section are sometimes unaware of or unable to grasp new ideas couched in the language of another discipline.

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