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. Grubler & 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 progressingbeyond 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. D. 
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 
