Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 - October 25, 1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist, educated in England.
Allen\'s first books dealt with scientific subjects, and include Physiological sthetics (1877) and Flowers and Their Pedigrees (1886)..
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).
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.
He was a public promoter of evolution in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 - October 25, 1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist, educated in England
