Excerpt from Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, Vol. 6: Session 1885-86; With List of Officers, Members, Etc Besides acknowledging the honour of being asked to deliver an address before this Society, I wish to say that I consider it an additional honour that the address is the Bowman Lecture. Praise from me to Bowman would be impertinence, but here is my Opportunity, not only for thanking Sir William Bowman for the benefit which I, like the rest of my profession, have derived from the basic work he has done, but of also tendering him my warmest personal thanks for much encouragement given me in the work I was, many years ago, trying to do. At the same time, I gratefully acknowledge that to his successor in the presidential chair (mr. Hutchinson) I feel highly indebted for my earliest instruction in Ophthalmology, as well as for great help of very many kinds for many years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.