Malignant intra-ocular growths in children are rare, but in the eye-ball as in almost no other part of the body they are encapsulated. If they are discovered early enough, therefore, and enucleation is at once performed, life may thereby be saved. If, on the other hand, their presence is not recognized until the integrity of sclera or cornea has been destroyed and the orbital or extra-orbital tissues has become involved, the invasion of the brain and face with the separation of the cranial bones results in such a horrible method of death that even if the number of cases of retinal glioma is not great, it is worth while to emphasize the characteristic diagnostic features in order that no child may be denied the right of help—while help is yet possible. The possibilities are that if all cases were reported, their aggregate number might not be so small. Winter-steiner