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"A method is presented in which a Beckman model B spectrophotometer is used for the measurement of the transmittance of the visible spectrum through the bovine eye media. The procedures used for the various media show that the largest amount of the visible spectrum is absorbed by the lens. Increasingly smaller amounts of spectral absorption occurred in the cornea, the vitreous, and the aqueous. A comparison of the calculated component media transmittance with the total eye transmittance reveals less than 2 percent difference. The difference is attributed to the additional backscattering of the various components. Bovine media transmittance data and the rabbit transmittance data of Kinsey show a remarkable likeness, the differences being attributed to globe size."--Abstract