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I WISH to offer a few remarks upon Mr. Wallace's kind and appreciative review of my work on the “Colour-Sense” in NATURE, vol. xix. p. 501. Mr. Wallace attributes to me “many errors” and inaccuracy as to matters of fact; but I do not think the instances he alleges are sufficient to justify the statement. Had I said in every case what Mr. Wallace makes me say, I should, doubtless, have been misrepresenting facts; but it seems to me that in most of the passages to which he refers he has slightly misconceived my meaning. I shuld not attempts to oppose so distinguished a naturalist on points of biological inference, but I venture to defend the accuracy of my statements of fact.
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ALLEN, G. Colour in Nature. Nature 19, 580–581 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019580b0
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