ALLEN, Grant, naturalist, born in Kingston, Canada, 24 February 1848. He studied at Oxford, England, and was graduated in 1871 with high honors. In 1873 he was appointed professor of logic and philosophy in Queen's College, Spanish Town, Jamaica, and from 1874 to 1877 was its principal. Since then he has resided in England, where his graceful articles on popular scientific subjects constantly appear in the current magazines. His published works include "Physiological 2Esthetics" (1877) ; "The Color Sense" (1879) ; "Anglo-Saxon Britain" (1880) ; "Vignettes from Nature" (1881) : "The Colors of Flowers" (1882) ; "Strange Stories" (1884) ; "Flowers and their Pedigrees" (New York. 1884) ; " Charles Darwin" (1885) ; "Philistia" (1885) ; "For Mamie's Sake" (1886) ; "Babylon" (1886), and " In All Shades" (1886), the last four being novels, He has used the pen-names of J. Arbuthnot Wilson and Cecil Power.