Clinical vision impairment measures are highly correlated with capacity to perform ADLs, as measured by the MLVAI.

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The MLVAI is highly valid and reliable when weighted by a scale that reflects the personal importance of ADL's. The MLVAI(W) can provide information over and above that obtained with the usual clinical vision measures and may be used to assess low-vision patients and to measure low-vision rehabilitation outcomes. It is suggested that the assessment of disability using the original MLVAI and the assessment of the impact of disability using the MLVAI(W) should be kept separate to facilitate the clear interpretation of the outcomes of low-vision rehabilitation.

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The origin of the register for the mentally subnormal has already been described (Innes, Kidd, and Ross, 1968) and in the present paper we report on the results of a cytogenetic survey of these individuals. The survey formed part of a comprehensive study on biochemical, social, psychological, and family aspects of the registered individuals. These other results will be presented elsewhere. 295All persons on the register were included, whether they resided at home or in subnormality hospitals or other institutional care. The availability of beds and the policy regarding admission should not, therefore, affect ascertainment. Some individuals in fact changed their placement during the course of the survey. However, facilities for the identification and care of the retarded, which are closely linked functions, have been developed at different rates in the various counties within the region. In the more remote areas also, there is little incentive to notify such ind-ividuals, especially when high grade. These people are often accepted in rural communities and gainfully employed. Such factors will lead to under-ascertainment, again, particularly for the high-grade individual who has left school and also for preschool children with mild defect who may not be recognized unless other malformations are present. In contrast, notification is likely to be most complete in the City of Aberdeen because of the early provision of facilities, culminating in the opening of a special school in 1956, and in the whole area, for those of school age. The final number of those included in the survey

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I Discuss here some features of the type of storage amphora dubbed ‘SOS’, a large semi-decorated container in use from the later eighth to the first half of the sixth century B.C., and found at a large number of sites around the Mediterranean and beyond. In particular, the evidence of clay analyses carried out at the British School by Richard Jones will be adduced to confirm the Attic origin of the majority of these vases, while other centres of production will be reviewed. I also treat briefly the shape and decoration of the type and the inscriptions which the vases often carry. Other scholars are working on different aspects of the SOS amphora and I have therefore restricted my comments here; similarly, I do not treat at length material which is in course of publication, leaving closer discussion of dating especially to the excavators concerned.

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