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Science 13 April 1962:
Vol. 136. no. 3511, pp. 157 - 158
DOI: 10.1126/science.136.3511.157
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Refractive Error and Vision in Fishes

Edward R. Baylor 1 and Evelyn Shaw 2

1 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
2 American Museum of Natural History, New York

The eyes of living immersed herring and silversides are farsighted and require greater hypermetropic correction for lateral vision than for anterior vision. Comparisons of lens-to-retina distances in frozen material with focal lengths of lenses are consistent with the degree of hypermetropy found by retinoscopy.

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