"Artistic people are all talking about Mr. Muybridge, who has come hither with that rare desideratum--_something new_."--London CORRESPONDENCE, _Philadelphia Times._ "It is impossible to do justice in this short time to the extraordinary exhibition given by Mr. Muybridge at the Institute of Technology.... The interest they excite in the mind of the spectator is indescribable."--_Sunday Gazette, Boston._ [Illustration: 16. CHILDREN RUNNING.] "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_. [Illustration: 17. ELEPHANT AMBLING.] "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_. [Illustration: 18. LION WALKING.] "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. [Illustration: 20. EGYPTIAN CAMEL RACKING.] "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._ [Illustration: 21. BABOON WALKING.]