"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._ [Illustration: 42. HORSE GALLOPING.] "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._ [Illustration: 43. HORSE JUMPING.] "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._ [Illustration: 44. HORSE HAULING.] "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._ [Illustration: 45. COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION HORSE RACE, GALLOPING.] "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. [Illustration: 46. COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION HORSE RACE, TROTTING.] "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._