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Colour Vision of Three Albinos

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IN 1951 an albino woman was given anomaloscope tests1 and it was reported that she had a marked deviation in red vision. Recently, two albino men have been tested. The three subjects are unrelated. Tables 1 and 2 indicate the abnormalities of colour vision found in them on the anomaloscope2.

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  1. Nature, 168, 954 (1951).

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  2. Brit. J. Physiol. Optics, 14, 2 (1957).

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  1. Psychology Dept., The University, Glasgow,

    R. W. PICKFORD

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PICKFORD, R. Colour Vision of Three Albinos. Nature 181, 361–362 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181361b0

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