Excerpt from Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, With Additions, Arranged So as to Render It Highly Useful to the Arts and Sciences, Particularly Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Morbid Anatomy: Annexed to Which Are Examples Selected From Well-Known Objects in the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms

Lour is an Object indispensably necessary, should have been so long overlooked. In describing any Object, to specify its co lours is always'useful but where colour forms a character, it becomes absolutely necessary. How defective, therefore, must description be when the terms used are ambiguous; and where there is no re gular standard to refer to. Description without figure is generally difficult to be comprehended; description and figure are in many instances still defective; but description, figure, and colour combined form the most perfect representation, and are next to seeing the Object itself. An.

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