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IN my brief criticism of Mr. Ackroyd's book, I did not intend to suggest that the whole of the section on natural colours was “padding.” My meaning would, perhaps, have been clearer had I written, “a large portion of that part of the book which deals with theories of the natural colour, of bodies is nothing more than padding.” The forty pages which comprise the chapter on “The Chemistry of Colour,” contain the substance of a lecture delivered before the Society of Dyers and Colourists, and is so full of tabular details, while the remainder of the book is of a very elementary character, that it certainly gives the impression of having been included more to increase the bulk than on account of suitability.
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YOUR REVIEWER. “The Old Light and the New”. Nature 54, 173 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054173b0
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