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Show Color Blind. New York, Aug. 25. A dispatch from London says : The report of the committee on color vision appointed by the Royal society, so-ciety, and of which Lord Rayleigh was chairman, was issued today. After weighing weigh-ing the evidence they obtained, the committee com-mittee unanimously recommends that the board of trade or some other central authority author-ity should schedule certain employments in the merchant marine and on railways, the filling of which by persons whose vision is imperfect, either for color or form, or who are ignorant of the names of colors, would involve dauger to life and property. . The proper tesling, both' for color and form, of all candidates for such employments should, In the view of the committee, be compulsory aud entrusted to certificated examiners. The question is of great public importance, what is known as color blindness being more prevalent than is generally supposed, while the tests for It would appear, in some instances in-stances at least, to be not at all adequate. . m . |