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This article presents abstracts of papers presented at City University Centenary Conference, in London, England on June 1, 1994. All the speakers at the conference were former undergraduate or postgraduate students of the Department of Optometry and Visual Science at the university. One of the papers focused on the correction of presbyopia. According to researcher M.H. Freeman, any corrective device for presbyopia must provide acceptable optical quality over the corrective effect required. Another paper talked about the ocular response to sustained visual tasks. Various other topics on which papers were presented included retinoscopy, corneal regeneration and glaucoma.

This article presents an announcement related to optometry conference as of January 1997. Biennial conferences on clinical optometry of College of Optometrist in London, England, will be held in New York in March 1998. The conference will provide a comprehensive update on the development, use and restoration of vision with keynote addresses, papers on recent advances in clinical vision science and an integrated programme of continuing professional education. The format and content of the conference will appeal to all sectors of the optometric community especially the general optometric practitioner who wishes to extend his or her level of expertise in the delivery of primary health care.

The article offers information on the Institute of Optometry in London, England. Institute of Optometry was known before as London Refraction Hospital. It states that the hospital was established in 1922 and was known in the world of optometry. It has launched an appeal for 500,000 pound that enables it to support major research programme and modernize its clinical facilities and provides educational facilities and equipment.

The article focuses on a century of research on colour photometry conducted at Imperial College in London, England in 1886-1986. It discusses the investigations on vision covering the 60 years from 1926 to 1986, linking the studies to the experiment of optometrist W. de W. Abney on colour vision in 1886. It also highlights the connection of the studies from Abney to John Parsons to Dr. L. C. Martin and the Medical Research Council. Details on these researches on colour vision are included.

The beginning of the long march of British optometry to professional status was signaled by the founding of the British Optical Association in 1895. In the subsequent campaign, a vital role was played by a remarkable group of mainly young optometrists who formed the volunteer clinical stall of the London, England-based London Refraction Hospital in its earliest years, the l920s. Leonard A. Swann died in 1990 at the age of 87. He was, the last surviving member of this group which had also included such distinguished names as John Cole, Claude Dupont, George Giles, Walter Green, Frederick Hawkes and A. W. S. Raxworthy. To these and many others of a like mind in all parts of Great Britain optometry owes an enormous debt.

The article offers information on the London Refraction Hospital in England. The charitable institution has more than 100 unpaid voluntary optometric staff and relies on donations to survive financially. It aims to provide treatment of the eye on terms appropriate to the means of patients, to promote optical sciences and to improve human vision. The hospital offers special courses for practising optometrists.