1. There is no essential difference between the cases in which there is a definite cone of filmy or infiltrated membrane reaching from the optic nerve head to the ciliary body, and those in which deposits of a similar nature are found confined to the anterior portion of the vitreous chamber. The grounds for this statement are as follows: (_a_) An examination of the more complete specimens of conical exudate shows that the membrane becomes very slender as the nerve head is approached, and it is obvious that very little violence would be required to break this delicate thread across, and so to allow the whole membrane to be gathered up by its own elasticity towards its large and strong anterior attachments. (_b_) There is strong evidence in a number of the specimens of this series to show that the contraction of the shrinking inflammatory material within the globes takes place with such force as might easily suffice to break across the slender nerve attachment of some of these cones. (_c_) It is obvious that in not a few cases the tapering apex of a conical exudate is likely to be cut across during section of the globe, or broken across during subsequent manipulations. (_d_) Specimens in which the exudates presented a definite conical shape, when they were first cut in India, have arrived in this country transformed during the voyage into the similitude of those in which the exudate is loosely gathered into the fore part of the vitreous chamber; the apex of the cone had been broken off at the nerve head, and the exudate had moved forward by virtue of its own elasticity toward the anterior attachments of the mass. Taking all these points into consideration, we may conclude that in all the eyeballs which present the appearance of shrunken vitreous the structure was originally conical in form, and that departures from that shape are merely artefacts. Stress is laid on this point, because in a number of the globes the appearances present suggest that the exudate is poured out from the ciliary body, and is confined to the neighbourhood of that structure. We believe such an interpretation to be quite erroneous, and to be founded on the observation of artefacts.