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IT was not from any experiments of my own, but on the authority of Helmholtz, that I asserted the identity of brown with a dark yellow or orange. He found that the pure red and yellow of the spectrum gave the various shades of brown when seen by the side of more brilliantly lighted white surfaces. (Physiologische Optik, p. 281.) There is therefore nothing in the nature of the colour to exclude complete saturation, although it may well happen that most of the browns we ordinarily see fall somewhat short of it.
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STRUTT, J. Yellow. Nature 3, 264–265 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003264e0
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