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phranor, Action, and Apelles famous for blending their 

 colours with taste and judgment, p. 539. 



We might add that the whole region of colour can be 

 made with three, and why should the ancients be thought 

 not to understand colour if they used only four or even 

 less ; but if it is meant that they had only four including 

 shades and mixtures, the text seems to deny it. If again 

 it is supposed that because the names of the colours were 

 few the perception of them was equally deficient, we may 

 only look to Lancashire to find that wonderful appreciation 

 of shade among her calico printers, whilst the words 

 expressing colour had not increased except in a manner 

 expressing their chemical composition when it was con- 

 venient. Manganese brown, for example, was still a brown. 

 When tar colours arrived a new style of name was requisite 

 for the beautiful shades, but it required no new organs to 

 see them, no generation developed to appreciate them 

 every workman saw them at once the power lay in 

 the organism as unused to them as in the time of Homer, 

 when probably it was finer than with us, as the Greek 

 senses were keener and finer than ours as to the external 

 appearance of objects. (See Dr. Schunck's paper in ' Me- 

 moirs ' for 1881). 



Of Thomas Cooper, Esq., we are told that he was a bar- 

 rister at Manchester in 1792, but that he was compelled to 

 leave his native country during the disgraceful riot in that 

 year, retired to America, and settled in Columbia, where 

 he died, May n, in his eightieth year. 



Cooper published in the Transactions of our Society a 

 paper entitled-' Propositions respecting the Foundations of 

 Civil Government.' To a subsequent reprint of that paper 

 he attached the following note regarding female education ; 



