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In Dedication to Hermann Burian (1906-1974) T. LAWWILL (Louisville) This 14th Symposium of the International Society for Clinical Electro- retinography is dedicated to the memory of a great ophthalmologist, great physiologist, former officer of this Society, and my professor, Hermann Martin Burian. Dr. Burian was a visual physiologist and an ophthalmologist. His physiol- ogy heritage was the finest. His father, Richard, was an eminent European physiologist who at the time of Dr. Burian's birth was director of the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. The family later moved to Leipzig and Belgrade, where Dr. Burian's father held professorships. Hermann Burian's ophthalmological academic heritage was also outstand- ing. After graduating from medical school in 1930 in Belgrade, he became a student of Tschermak and along the way worked with such famous men as Siegrist, Goldmann and Weigert. In 1936, Dr. Burian came to the USA to join the Dartmouth Eye Insti- tute. Here he worked in ocular motility under Professor Bielschowsky and in physiological optics under Professor Ames. He was chief ophthalmologist of the Darmouth Eye Institute from 194245.
He was in the private practice of ophthalmology in Boston for six years before moving to Iowa City, Iowa where, for twenty years, he practiced and taught ophthalmology and carried out research on many problems in ophthalmology and visual physiology. Dr. Burian's two main interests were strabismus and electrophysiology, but this did not keep him from publishing outstanding work on glaucoma, congenital anomalies, and color vision.

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Introduction: In Dedication to Hermann Burian (1906-1974).- The Correlation of Electrophysiological and Psychophysical Measures: VECP.- Visual Acuity and Checkerboard Potentials with Defocusing Lenses.- Influence of Stimulus Duration and Area on the Spectral Luminosity Function as Determined by Sensory and VECP Measurements..- Local and Spatial Distribution of Photopic and Scotopic Responses in the Visual Field as Reflected in the Visually Evoked Cortical Potential (VECP)..- Grating Acuity in Two Sisters with Tapetoretinal Degeneration.- Psychophysical and VECP Examinations of Emmetropia, Myopia, Hypermetropia and Aphakia.- Localization of Visual Evoked Cortical Potentials in Homonuous Hemianopia.- Amplitude versus Frequency Characteristics of Visual Evoked Cortical Potentials to Sine Wave Modulated Light in Diseases of the Optic Nerve.- The Visually Evoked Response and Psychophysical Testing in Optic Neuritis.- On the Lack of Correlation Between ERG and EOG Alterations in Malignant Melanoma of the Choroid.- Normal EOG Values of Young Subjects.- Variations of the Directly Recorded Standing Potential of the Human Eye in Response to Changes in Illumination and to Ethanol.- The ERG and EOG During the Course of Sympathetic Ophthalmia.- Ischemic Retinopathy: Reduced Light Peak-and Dark Trough Amplitudes in Electrooculography.- The Correlation of Electrophysio-logical and Psychophysical Measures: The Electroretinogram.- Dynamic Electroretinography and Absolute Photoptometry in Short Wavelength Ultraviolet Light after Oral Administration of Sodium Fluoresceinate in Man.- The Effects of Photocoagulation on the Electroretinogram and Dark Adaptation in Diabetic Retinopathy.- Hereditary Retinal Diseases: Classification with the Full-Field Electroretinogram.- Electrophysiological and Psychophysical Studies in Congenital Retinoschisis of X-Linked Recessive Inheritance.- The Significance of the DC-ERG in Hereditary Retinal Disease.- Statistical Analysis of ERG Amplitude and Waveform Abnormalities in Macular Degeneration.- Some Characteristics of the Electroretinogram in Hereditary Retinal Pigmentary Dystrophy. 1. The Correlation of Recordability by Single Stimulus and Mode of Inheritance.- Once More: Does Unilateral Retinitis Pigmentosa Really Exist?.- Fundus Flavimaculatus: A Clinical Classification.- Fundus Flavimaculatus Associated with Polycystic Kidney Disease: Another Oculo-Renal Disorder?.- Defining Fundus Albipunctatus.- Retinitis Pigmentosa: An Improved Clinical Approach.- ERG in Sectorial Pigmentary Retinopathy.- Secondary Retinitis Pigmentosa (Syphilis).- Retinal Degenerations, Electroretinographic Aspects in Patients with Myotonic Dystrophy.- Central and Peripheral Retinal Degeneration in a Family: A Study of the ERG and Fields.- A Case of Unilateral Retinitis Pigmentosa Sine Pigmento.- Abnormal ERG Findings in a Case with Fundus Flavimaculatus with Typical Stargardt's Macular Degeneration.- The Scotopic and Photopic Bar-Pattern ERG - Contributions of the Central and Peripheral Retina.- The Foveal Local ERG Response to Transient and Steady State Flickering Stimuli.- Macular ERG'S Elicited by Checkerboard Pattern Stimuli.- Effects of Atropine on ERG and Optic Nerve Response in the Cat.- Relationship Between ERG and O2 Consumption in the Isolated Perfused Bovine Eye.- Changes of ERG Due to High and Low Sodium Concentration in the Perfusing Blood of the Isolated Eye.- Retinotropic Activity of ?-Hydroxyhexyl-pyridone-2 in Methanol and Allylalcohol Injury.- A Chromaticity Diagram for Defects in Color Vision.- Unsedated Corneal Electroretinograms from Children.- Evaluation of Micro-electrodes Chronically Implanted on the Retina.- Retinal Action Potential of Rabbits Recorded by a Pair of Electrodes on the Sciera.- Laser Generated Patterned Stimuli for Visual Evoked Responses.- Remote Measurements of the Visually Evoked Cortical Potential by Telephone Lines.- A New Contact Lens Electrode.- Calibration of the ERG Stimulus.