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POPULAR MISCELLANY. 



Edncation of the Color-Sense.— Though 

 it i3 but a few years since general attention 

 has been directed to the subject of color 

 blindness, the study of its phenomena has 

 shown that there are two forms of the de- 

 fect, not perhaps sharply separable, but 

 nevertheless quite distinct. In one form 

 there appears to be simply an imperfect 

 or undeveloped sense of color, the power 

 of distinguishing the different colors, though 

 not wholly absent, being far below the nor- 

 mal. In the other form of the defect there 

 is an entire inability to recognize one or 

 more of the primary colors — that is, the 

 blindness is complete so far as particular 

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 Color -Sense in Children," expresses the 

 opinion that cases of the first-mentioned 



