EVOLUTION OF SIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 246, 17 October 1929, Page 14

EVOLUTION OF SIGHT.

university lecttjke. INTERESTING REVIEW BY DR. FAIRCLOUGH. "The Evolution of Vision" was the subject of a lecture given by Dr. W. A. Fairclough in the University College Hall last evening, under the auspices of the Auckland Institute. Professor F. P. Worley was in the chair. Dr. Fairclough described the development of the organ of vision from an origin possibly a thousand million years ago. "The world we live in is made known to us chiefly by sight." he said. "Speech was evolved only after vision had made known the object for which names could be usefully employed. Vision is the fundamental factor in the * development of intelligence of the human type. Dr. Fairclough used lantern slides in | describing in detail the nature of the visual organs of various forms of life, i He said the human eye was not consid- | ered to be the most efficient optical j instrument, although the associated brain development in man gave it the undoubted first place as a precipient organ. "The eyes do not see. It is the brain .hat sees," declared the lecturer.