The percentage of red and green colourblindness among Chinamen has been found to be about three, or not very different from that among Europeans. Fully half of those tested by Dr Field of Swatow, however, mixed up blue and green, causing him to believe that many Cninese are quite blind to the violet colours. ■. . The language of Greece to-day, allowing for the changes which would naturally be brought about during the centuries, is substantially the same as the language used by Demosthenes and Pericles.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5690, 8 October 1896, Page 1
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