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SCIENCE OF THE HORSE'S MOTION. 



THE reiiiarkablo pictures of the horse in motion, as 

 revealed by Mr. Muybridge's instantaneous photo- 

 graphs, taken in California, at the instance of Governor 

 Stanford, show that the impressions produced upon 

 the human mind through the eyes, in closely watching the 

 motions of a horse when running a certain distance, are 

 ■very ditTerent from the impressions which will be made 

 ■during the same run upon a highly sensitive photographic 

 plate. 



In a recent number of the Avierican Queen, we find a 



peculiar drawing, which is of value as illustrating at one 

 view tliese extraordinary diflerenoes of impressions. 



The two upper figures show the impressions ordinarily 

 made upon the mind's eye by tlie horse and rider in the 

 acts of running .ind leaping. Here we have grace, vigour, 

 and strength very well exemplified. The smaller figures 

 below are mostly made from the instantantH)us photographic 

 pictures before mentioned, with tliis important qualifica- 

 tion, however, that while many of the positions of the 

 liorsos are correctly taken from the photographs, the posi- 

 tions of the riders are, we suppose, the work of the fancy 

 of the artist There is an old adage, that things are not 



