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(Figs. 136 and 137), among which, no doubt, artists 

 will find some of which they can make good use. 



The Uses of Photography in showing Marked Charac- 

 teristics in the Forms of Animals. — In artistic repre- 

 sentations, correctness of attitude is not all that is 

 required. To this must be added correctness of form, 



Fig. 134. — Horse walking (enlarged). 



without which a movement cannot be successfully 

 represented. Artists of remote antiquity appear to 

 have acquired a knowledge of some of the paces, if not 

 of the most complicated one, namely, that of walking. 

 On looking at Figs. 138 and 139, examples of an ambling 

 pace will be seen accurately represented.* It is of all 



* These and most of the following figures have been borrowed from 

 the Duhousset collection. They appeared in La Nature. 



