Eye Institute Ends

DUE TO "lack of funds," the Trustees of the Dartmouth Eye Institute voted to close both its clinical and research branches effective May 10, it was announced last month by John Pearson '11, managing trustee.

The only work of the Institute which will be carried on will be the research of Adelbert Ames Jr. in visual perception. This will continue at 27 North Main Street under the name of the Hanover Institute.

Originally started in 1919 when Mr. Ames came to Hanover to seek the help of Professor Charles A. Proctor '00 of the physics department in his study of physiological optics, the Institute has moved from its original Wilder quarters to McNutt, and then to Mary Hitchcock, before finally moving to 4 Webster Avenue. Eventually the research division moved from Wilder to the Choate House on Main Street. The Eye Institute functioned under the direct auspices of Dartmouth College until July 1, 1946, when the Institute became an independent organization, although retaining its original name.

Famous for its discovery of aniseikonia, a defect of unequal ocular images, and its treatment, the Institute also lias done distinguished work during the war on binocular spatial sense, which was of real value to both Army and Navy Air Corps in discovering and correcting visual space and depth distortions.