Part 10

"Professor Marey invited to his residence a large number of the most eminent men in Europe for the purpose of meeting Mr. Muybridge, and witnessing an exhibition that should be placed before the whole Parisian public."--Le Globe, Paris.

"The art critic and the connoisseur will find a study of Mr. Muybridge's work of inestimable value in aiding them to criticize intelligently."--Pennsylvanian, Philadelphia.

"The applause which greeted these wonderful pictures from the brilliant company was hearty in the extreme; and all predicted a new era was open to art, and new resources made available for the use of artists."--Galignani's Messenger, Paris.

"Of immense interest and value."--Lippincott's Magazine, Philadelphia.

"The ZOOPRAXISCOPE is the latest, most unique, and instructive form of amusement possible."--Commercial Gazette, Cincinnati.

"His work at once attracted the attention of the world."--Scientific American, New York.

"Of much interest and value, as well as a source of great amusement."--Observer, London.

"The realism of the motions of the various animals was intense, and the audience was very enthusiastic."--Boston Post.

"The Lecturer proceeded to show enlarged photographs of various animals in motion, as the horse, dog, lion, mule, cat, etc.... These were followed by some very striking pictures of the flight of birds, which from a scientific standpoint were by far the most interesting and valuable of the photographs shown during the evening."--Lancet, London.

"Of extreme interest, not only to the artists and scientists, but to the greater part of his audience, who were neither the one or the other."--Birmingham Daily Gazette.

"A host of well-known scientists and artists are greatly interested in this remarkable work."--Pall Mall Gazette.

"The lecture on Tuesday night more than fulfilled the expectations which the audience had formed of Mr. Muybridge's researches."--Belfast News Letter.

"Mr. Muybridge might well be proud of the reception accorded him by his distinguished audience; it would have been difficult to add to the éclat of his appearance, and his lecture was welcomed by a warmth as hearty as it was spontaneous."--The Photographic News, London.

"The illustrations are truly wonderful, and the rapid changing positions were most instructive."--Nottingham Express.

"The concert room was crowded.... A vote of thanks to the Lecturer was proposed by his Grace the Archbishop."--Yorkshire Chronicle.

"A very brilliant audience was assembled at the Royal Institution.... The photographs properly studied should be most valuable in affording truer and more exact data for the painter to base his work upon...."--The Builder, London.

"A very important subject to all those interested in art."--Belfast News Letter.

"It is now nine years since the photographs of Mr. Eadweard Muybridge surprised the world by challenging all received conceptions of animal motion."--Century Magazine, New York.

"The interest excited by the novelty, both of the demonstrations and the results, was so great, that Mr. Muybridge has been invited by the Photographic Society of Ireland to repeat them to-night in a public lecture."--The Freeman's Journal, Dublin.

"The audience filled the large hall, and by their frequent and hearty applause, expressed their appreciation of the lecture."--Irish Times, Dublin.

"A very large audience again assembled in the Town Hall last evening, on the occasion of the second Lecture by Mr. Muybridge. The Mayor, who presided, referred to the first Lecture as perhaps the most unique ever delivered in Birmingham."--Birmingham Daily Gazette.

"The attendance was exceedingly large, and the Lecture and admirable illustrations were loudly applauded."--The Irish Times, Dublin.

"There was a very large attendance, and seldom have we seen so much genuine admiration and enthusiasm displayed as were evoked by Mr. Muybridge's illustrations, which were really wonderful."--The Daily Express, Dublin.

"There was a crowded audience, and the Lecture, which was listened to with the greatest interest, was warmly applauded."--The Freeman's Journal, Dublin.

"No description can do justice to the extent and variety of the subjects presented in this thorough study of animal movements."--Ledger, Philadelphia.

"Wonderful and interesting demonstration; its influence will become more and more potent and universal as the years go on."--Argus, Albany.

"Will necessarily revolutionize the treatment of the action of the horse in painting and sculpture. For the physiological study of animal movements these pictures are a veritable treasure."--Landwirthschaftliche-Zeitung, Vienna.

"I am lost with admiration of these photographs of Mr. Muybridge."--PROFESSOR MAREY, in La Nature, Paris.