Scale
No.
Wave-
length.
Reading. Colours named by N. W. Spectrum colours
to normal vision.
60 6728 3 Both grey Red.
58 6520 10
56 6330 30
54 6152 52 Colour “brownish,” white “grey”
52 5996 70 „ „ „
50 5850 81 „ „ „ Orange.
48 5720 87 Colour “brownish-green.” white “grey”
46 5596 90 Colour “green,” white “grey”
44 5481 88 „ „
42 5373 82 „ „
40 5270 62·5 „ „ Green.
38 5172 46 „ „
35 5042 23 „ „
32 4924 12·5 „ „
31 4886 10 Colour “brownish-grey,” white “brownish-green.”
30·5 4862 8·5 „ „ „ Blue.
25 4675 5 „ „ „
20 4518 3 „ „ „
15 4376 2·5 „ „ „
10 4248 1·5 „ „ „ Violet.
0 4010 0·2 „ „ „

Her curve of luminosity in the spectrum was next taken, and her readings are given in the table above. The curve is shown in [Fig. 40]. The shaded band beneath it applies to her curve. Miss W.’s luminosity curve is also repeated in the same figure for the sake of comparison.

An endeavour was made to form a series of colour equations with her eyesight by placing three slits in different parts of the spectrum, but without success, although a match with white was made in two positions. One slit was in the orange-red (52 of the scale), another at E, and the third at G; mixtures were made which she said matched the white, but they were so erratic that it was useless to measure the apertures. When the slit in the violet was covered up, a white patch being alongside as a comparison, she called the mixture of red and green “brownish-green”; when the slit in the red was covered she called the mixed light of green and violet “green”; and when the green slit was covered up she called the purple colour a “different kind of brown.”

When the first slit was moved into the red near the lithium line she called the colours “green,” whenever the green slit was uncovered. A piece of red glass was placed in the white reflected beam, forming a red patch, and a patch of the blue at scale No. 30·5 (λ 4862) was placed alongside, and she matched them in luminosity and in colour. (The dominant colour of the signal glass in question was λ 6220.) She finally was tested with colour discs.

To make white she required

130 G + 113 R + 117 U = 72 W + 218 B.

She was then tried with the blue and green discs alone and made a match—

258 U + 102 G = 65 W + 295 B.

An attempt was made to match with the green and red discs alone, but this failed.

She matched the red disc alone with black and white, and also the blue disc alone—