PRINCIPLES OF COLOR 
AND 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
THE popular nomenclature of colors has of late years, 
especially since the introduction of aniline dyes and 
pigments, become involved in almost chaotic confusion 
through the coinage of a multitude of new names, many 
of them synonymous, and still more of them vague or 
variable in their meaning. These new names are far too 
numerous to be of any practical utility, even were each 
one identifiable with a particular fixed tint. Many of 
them are invented at the caprice of the dyer or manu- 
facturer of fabrics, and are as capricious in their meaning 
as in their origin ; among them being such fanciful names 
as " Zulu," " Crushed Strawberry," " Baby Blue," " Wood- 
bine-berry," " Night Green," etc., besides such nonsensical 
names as " Ashes of Boses" and " Elephant's Breath." An 
inspection of the sample-books of manufacturers of various 
fancy goods (such as embroidery silks and crewels) is 
sufficient to show the absolute want of system or classi- 
fication which prevails, thus rendering these names pecul- 
iarly unavailable for the purposes of science, where absolute 
