12 Color Standards and Nomenclature. 



George Rowney and Co., Madderton and Co., R. Acker- 

 mann and Co., Bourgeois, Binant, Chenal, L,e Franc, 

 Devoe, Raynolds, Osborne, Bradley, Hatfield and others; 

 also the coal-tar or aniline dyes of Dr. G. Grtibler & Co., 

 Continental Color and Chemical Co., and Henry Heil 

 Chemical Co., and the well known Diamond Dyes; 

 chromo-lithographic inks, embroidery silks, etc., etc. 



The material from which to select suitable color 

 names was greatly augmented, almost at the last moment, 

 from two sources, as follows: (l) A very large collection 

 of color-samples (unfortunately mostly unnamed) collect- 

 ed and mounted on cards by Mr. Frederick A. Wam- 

 pole, a talented young artist, to whom was delegated, 

 by a Committee of the American Mycological Society, 

 the task of preparing a nomenclature of colors based 

 upon spectroscopic determinations, but which, un- 

 fortunately, the untimely death of Mr. Wampole pre- 

 vented from progressing beyond the accumulation of this 

 collection. For the use of this material I am indebted 

 to the courtesy of Dr. Frederick V. Coville, Botanist of 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and Mr. P. L. 

 Ricker, Assistant Botanist, Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 in the same Department. (2) A splendid collection of 

 colored Japanese silks, taffetas, velvets, and other dress 

 goods, kindly sent me by Mr. C. H. Hospital, of the silk 

 department of the firm of Woodward and Lothrop, 

 Washington, D. C. The very large number of colors 

 represented in this collection are all named and have 

 afforded a considerable number of the names adopted in 

 the present work. 



For obvious reasons it has, of course, been necessary 

 to ignore many trade names, through which the popular 

 nomenclature of colors has become involved in really 

 chaotic confusion rendered more confounded by the con- 

 tinual coinage of new names, many of them synonymous 



