Part 9

"The photographs have solved many complicated questions as to animal locomotion."--Art Journal, London.

"The effect was weird, yet fascinating. Plaudit followed plaudit. A better pleased assemblage of people it would be difficult to find."--Boston Journal.

"... Mr. Muybridge then gave his famous lecture and demonstration on Animal Locomotion. The hall (St. James') was crowded, and many were unable to obtain seats."--Report of the Photographic Convention, British Journal of Photography.

"A demonstration that vividly interests all the world."--L'Illustration, Paris.

"Many of these pictures have great--indeed, astonishing--beauty. The interest which they present from the scientific point of view is three-fold:--(a) They are important as examples of a very nearly perfect method of investigation by photographic and electrical appliances. (b) They have also a great value on account of the actual facts of natural history and physiology which they record. (c) They have, thirdly, a quite distinct, and perhaps their most definite, interest in their relation to psychology."--PROF. E. RAY LANKESTER, F. R. S., in Nature.

"Mr. Meissonier's critical guests were evidently sceptical as to the accuracy of many of the positions; but when the photographs were turned rapidly, and made to pass before the lantern, their truthfulness was demonstrated most successfully."--Standard, London.

"Meissonier, devoting himself to his friends, evidently cared little for personal compliments; he was anxious for the well-deserved distinction of his protégé Muybridge.... 'C'est merveilleusement arrangé!' said Alexandre Dumas. 'C'est que la nature compose crânement bien!' replied Meissonier."--Le Temps, Paris.

"The sensation of the day, and the topic of popular conversation."--Boston Daily Advertiser.

"The rapid movements by different animals were most interesting: and hurdle-racing by horses--the very whipping process being visible--brought down the house."--Boston Herald.

"On revolving the instrument, the figures that have been derided by so many as impossible absurdities, started into life, and such a perfect representation of a racehorse at full speed as was never before witnessed was immediately visible."--The Field, London.

"Mr. Muybridge showed that many of our best artists have been in the habit of depicting animals in positions which they never assume in nature."--Chambers' Edinburgh Journal.

"The large school-room (Clifton College) was crowded. The head master presided. Loud applause and frequent laughter greeted the life-sized photographs from nature, which by a rapid revolution of the ZOOPRAXISCOPE, showed among other actions, the ambling of an elephant, the gallop of a race-horse, the somersault of a gymnast and the flight of a bird."--Bristol Mercury.

"The lecture theatre of the ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS was filled to overflowing."--Athenæum, London.

"The Royal Dublin Society's Theatre was filled to its utmost capacity yesterday afternoon, when Mr. Muybridge resumed his course of Lectures. The demonstration is simply marvellous."--Daily Express, Dublin.

"The result of years of labor, and of large expenditure of money is at last laid before the public in this magnificent work, and the result is one of which Mr. Muybridge and the University of Pennsylvania may well be proud."--Evening Post, New York.

"A Lecture of an exceptionally interesting character."--Nottingham Guardian.

"There was a crowded attendance. Throughout the lecture Mr. Muybridge retained the close interest of his audience, and drew from them frequent and warm applause."--The Scotsman, Edinburgh.

"In all my long experience of London life I cannot recall a single instance where such warm tributes of admiration have been so unsparingly given by the greatest in the land, as in the case of Mr. Muybridge's lectures."--OLIVE LOGAN in the Morning Call, San Francisco.

"Mr. Muybridge illustrated his lecture with a series of most valuable photographs, as well as that most fascinating of scientific toys--the ZOOPRAXISCOPE."--Magazine of Art, London.

"His labors attracted considerable attention in the world of science, while among artists and art critics a pretty controversy set in on the subject of the horse and his representation in art, which is likely to be revived and extended to other fields.... With Mr. Muybridge, 'Instantaneous Photography' has acquired a new significance, ..."--Saturday Review, London.

"No parallel in the history of photography."--Photographic Times, New York.

"An exhibition which Raphael, Tintoretto, Michael Angelo, and other great masters of the Renaissance would have travelled all over Europe to see."--Evening Transcript, Boston.

"The audience was astonished and delighted at the marvellous demonstrations of Animal Locomotion that were brought before them.... The most remarkable feature of the British Association meeting this year."--Newcastle Journal.

"The effects of the ZOOPRAXISCOPE made up one of the most unique and instructive entertainments imaginable."--Boston Daily Globe.

"A more curious, entertaining, and suggestive exhibition it has not been our good fortune for a long time to attend."--Sacramento Record-Union.

"Everybody has heard something of the wonderful success which Mr. Muybridge has achieved; and in no country in the world is greater interest felt in his work, particularly as regards horses, than in England."--Engineering, London.

"Simply marvels of the photographer's art."--Mercury, Leeds.

"Not the least instructive part of the Lecture was the contrast between the positions of animals as shown in ancient and modern art, with their true positions as shown by themselves in the camera."--New York Tribune.