New York, New York *Read before the annual meeting of the American Academy of Optometry, San Francisco, California, December 11, 1960. For publication in the July, 1961, issue of the American Journal of Optometry and Archives of American Academy of Optometry. The Optometric Center of New York is a non-profit, tax exempt institution, chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York. It was founded in 1956 to continue the clinical, research, and post-graduate educational work in vision, of the Department of Optometry, Columbia University, in the City of New York. †Optometrist, Attending Staff, Optometric Center of New York. Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry.