POSITION AND STRUCTURE OF HORSE 63 



fined down since he all but broke Tedding-ton's 

 heart." This seems to suggest that the horse had 

 a distinctive action of his own. 



In this place a few lines may be devoted to 

 the action and position of the limbs of a horse 

 at the gallop, and the conventional modes of repre- 

 senting the same. In this action the movements 

 of the limbs are so rapid that, like the spokes 

 of a quickly revolving wheel, the relative positions 

 of the limbs at any particular moment cannot be 

 appreciated by the human eye. Instantaneous pho- 

 tography shows, however, that all the conventional 

 modes of representing the galloping horse are 

 untrue to nature. 



Sir E. Ray Lankester in one of his articles 

 published in the Daily Telegraph under the title 

 of " Science from an Easy-Chair," has, for instance, 

 pointed out "that what has been drawn by artists 

 and called ' the flying gallop,' in which the legs 

 are fully extended and all the feet are off the 

 ground, with the hind-hoofs turned upwards, never 

 occurs at all in the galloping horse, nor anything 

 in the least like it. There is a fraction of a second 

 when all four legs of the galloping horse are off 

 the ground, but they are not then extended, but, 

 on the contrary, are drawn, the hind ones forward, 

 and the front ones backward, under the horse's 

 belly. A model showing this actual instantaneous 

 attitude of the galloping horse has been placed 



