And I was lucky enough to be on this paper with him, which was in Science , because Hubel was one of the reviewers I found out later, because they said the paper isn’t that important really, but how could they resist having a paper about a tiger [laughter]. The tiger died and we could get the brain. These are the white tigers that were very popular for a while.

And what Guillery had discovered previously was that any cats with a pigment deficit that affected their eyes, would have abnormal projections from the retina to the lateral geniculate nucleus. And so here would be a normal projection, and I won’t go over this because some of you know the visual system pretty well, and if you don’t it’s not that important. And Siamese cats have this abnormal projection where it diffuses and the projections is larger than it should be – so it goes by the line of decussation what would be normal, by the fovea and goes into the wrong visual field – and things don’t match up any more in visual space.       Next Page