The secretory part of the lacrimal apparatus is comparatively neglected in the study of chronic epiphora. The author found marked inflammatory changes in lacrimal glands with no other clinical symptoms than persistent lacrimation. He considers the possibility of a chronic dacryoadenitis secondary to a long standing inflammatory condition of the conjunctiva. Read before the Eye Section of the Los Angeles County Medical Society, June 6, 1927. From the Eye Service of Prof. M. Levitsky of the University of Kieff.