On colour-sight and colour-blindness in its relation to railway and sea signals : read before the Glasgow Philosophical Society, on March 5, 1879 / by J.R. Wolfe.

  • Wolfe, J. R. (John Reisberg), 1824-1904.
Date:
1879
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Credit: On colour-sight and colour-blindness in its relation to railway and sea signals : read before the Glasgow Philosophical Society, on March 5, 1879 / by J.R. Wolfe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Great credit is due to Dr. Joy Jeffries, of Boston, for his valuable efforts to direct public attention in America to that subject. Dr. Stilling, of Cassel, and Dr. Cohn, of Breslau, have also given us valu- able contributions to the study of this subject, and my excellent friend, Dr. Hugo Magnus, of Breslau, has written several brochures which have called forth high eulogiums from Mr. Gladstone, who published a paper on “ Colour Sense of Homer ” in the October number of the Nineteenth Century in 1877. Mr Gladstone’s paper was mainly instrumental in directing public attention to the subject in this country—the more so, that it was at a time of feverish political excitement that England’s great statesman and scholar was able to shake off Russ and Bulgarian, and to devote some hours to the study of the “Colour Sense of the Homeric Period.” I propose to speak to you this evening on percep- tion of colour in its practical bearing upon certain occupations, especially employes on railways and sailors. A few introductory remarks on the physi-' ology of vision will facilitate the treatment of the subject.