“…Farnborouqgh, Hants (Received 2 September 1954) The sensations of light (phosphenes) produced by electric currents passed between one electrode on the upper or lower eyelid or the forehead and another remote from the eyes have been investigated many times, and many attempts made to identify the structures electrically stimulated. That these are within the eye, at least for near-threshold excitation, is proved by the fact that the threshold is very much raised by blinding the eye nearer to the electrode by pressure (Finkelstein, 1894;Cords, 1907;Barlow, Kohn & Walsh, 1947;Howarth, 1954). Concerning which structures within the eye may be stimulated, widely differing conclusions have been reached, but none based on absolutely compelling evidence.…”