Abstract
<h3>To the Editor:</h3> —The readers of theArchiveswho do more and more cataract surgery, need accurate papers and lectures in helping them to understand both the transient and permanent problems of the spectacle-corrected aphake. Therefore, would you please allow me to call attention to several misleading inaccuracies and very important omissions regarding the so-called "ring scotoma" of high-plus (aphakic) spectacle lenses in the recent paper on "Spectacle Correction of Aphakia" by Dr. Paul Boeder in the December, 1962, issue of theArchives of Ophthalmology?<sup>1</sup> This blind area in the field of view does not "cover approximately 10°" as Dr. Boeder stated for a +12.00 D 44 mm diameter lens. Perhaps Dr. Boeder and those interested in the subject would benefit from a recent paper in the July, 1961, issue of the<i>American Journal of Ophthalmology</i>, entitled "The Roving Ring Scotoma with Its Jack-in-the-Box Phenomenon of Strong-Plus (Aphakic) Spectacle
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