Anglo-Saxon Britain (Esprios Classics)

Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24 1848 - October 25 1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist educated in England. He was a public promoter of evolution in the second half of the nineteenth century. After leaving his professorship in 1876 he returned to England where he turned his talents to writing gaining a reputation for his essays on science and for literary works. A 2007 book by Oliver Sacks cites with approval one of Allen's early articles Note-Deafness (a description of what became known as amusia published in 1878 in the learned journal Mind). Allen's first books dealt with scientific subjects and include Physiological Æsthetics (1877) and Flowers and Their Pedigrees (1886).