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in drawing the figure, viz. that all these records were 

 made by different persons, presumably with different 

 A's and different B's, i.e. different "credits" and 

 different " incomes." It is hoped, by consultation 

 with, and experiments on, a number of good athletes, 

 to draw up a standard average curve of the same 

 type for (say) a good mile runner, running all distances 

 over the range considered. A good loo-yds. -runner 

 usually cannot, or will not, run a mile at all ! More- 

 over, by a series of experiments on such athletes, it 

 should be possible to make a reasonably accurate state- 

 ment of the real relation, at all speeds, between the ratr 

 of oxygen-consumption and the speed. The former is 

 certainly not exactly proportional to the square of the 

 latter. For the present, however, it would seem that 

 the general principles are correct, and that the speed 

 and power of human muscular effort are mainly 

 limited by considerations of oxygen " income " and 

 " credit." The further exact investigation of these 

 facts will add greatly to the scientific interest of 

 athletics, and so will bring another valuable source of 

 experiment and observation within the reach of those 

 who are studying human function and activity. It is 

 not contended that these considerations of oxygen 

 and energy are the only ones ; there can be no question 

 of the importance of technical skill and training in the 

 use and correlation of one's muscles and limbs, of 

 tactical judgment in the actual race or effort, and of 

 the mental and moral aspects of what athletes call 

 " guts," that most intangible and yet most certain aid 

 to athletic success or bodily prowess. Neither can 

 any one of the physiological functions of the body be 

 left out of account. Given aU this, violent muscular 

 effort still consists mainly in the degradation of energy, 

 and this aspect of it gives us the clearest and most 

 definite picture of its essential nature. 



Garibaldi's Bride of an 

 Hour — A Postscript 



By Thomas Okey, M.A. 



Professor of Italian in the Uniuersilij r/ Cambridge 



[The interest aroused by Professor Okey's narrative 

 in the last number of Discovery of this hitherto 

 almost unknown episode in Garibaldi's life was very 

 considerable. In this small postscript Professor Okey 

 offers to our readers two photographs of the remarkable 

 woman who acted as a messenger for the Garibaldians, 

 nursed the great hero, and married him, only to be 

 deserted by him within an hour after the ceremony. 

 On whose side lay the greater degree of blame for the 

 tragedy is a question which will probably never be 

 decided. — Ed.] 



Owing to the good offices of Signorina Emma Bellati, 

 and through her friends in Italy, I am enabled to offer 

 to the readers of Discovery copies of two existing 



photographs of la bella Giuseppina. The sitting, 

 full-figure is the nearer, as may be easily seen by the 

 dress, to the period of the Garibaldi drama. The 



photograph was taken at Zurich, and is the property 

 of a friend of the family. The second portrait, taken 

 later at Milan, admirably portrays, according to one 



