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_APPENDIX A._

SYLLABUS OF A COURSE OF TWO LECTURES

ON

ZOOPRAXOGRAPHY

OR

THE SCIENCE OF ANIMAL LOCOMOTION IN ITS RELATION TO DESIGN IN ART.

Origin of the Author's Investigations--Diagram of the Studio at the University of Pennsylvania where the Investigation was conducted--Batteries of Cameras, Electro-exposers, Contact-motor, Chronograph, and other apparatus used for photographing consecutive phases of animal movements--Method of obtaining successive exposures of moving objects synchronously from several different points of view--Normal Locomotion of Animals--Twelve consecutive phases of a single step of the Horse while walking; also of the Ox, Elk, Goat, Buffalo, and other cloven-footed animals; the Lion, Elephant, Camel, Dog, and other soft-footed animals; of the Sloth while suspended by its claws, and of the Child while crawling on the ground; of man walking erect--The Normal Method of Locomotion by all animals essentially the same--The Quadrupedal Walk as interpreted by Prehistoric Man, by the Egyptians, a.s.syrians, Phoenicians, Etruscans, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and by eminent artists of mediaeval and of modern times--The Statue of Marcus Aurelius the great source of modern errors; Marcus Aurelius in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, New York, Boston, and many other cities--Albert Durer, Verrocchio, Meissonier, Paul Delaroche, Landseer, Rosa Bonheur, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, &c.--Other Quadrupedal movements, the Amble, Rack, Trot and Canter--Twelve phases in the Gallop of a Horse--Origin of the modern representation of the Gallop--Gallop as depicted by the Hitt.i.tes, North American Indians, Egyptians, a.s.syrians, Greeks, the mediaeval artists--The modern conventional gallop; evidences of its absurdity; acknowledgment by the Artist of the necessity of reformation--Leap of the Horse, Kick of the Mule, &c., all ill.u.s.trated by photographs the size of life, from nature, and comparisons made with the interpretation of the same movements by artists of pre-historic, ancient, mediaeval and modern times--Demonstration of the action of the primary feathers in the wing of a Bird while Flying, and a solution of the complex problem of Soaring.

AFTER THE VARIOUS METHODS OF LOCOMOTION HAVE BEEN DEMONSTRATED BY a.n.a.lYSIS, THEY WILL BE REPRESENTED SYNTHETICALLY BY THE ZOOPRAXISCOPE.

_Among the many Inst.i.tutions where Mr. Muybridge has had the honor of Lecturing on_

ZOOPRAXOGRAPHY

_are the following_:--

Royal Academy of Arts, London.

Royal Society of London.

Royal College of Surgeons, London.

Royal Inst.i.tution of Great Britain.

Royal Dublin Society.

Royal Geographical Society.

Royal Inst.i.tution, Hull.

British a.s.sociation for the Advancement of Science.

Linnean Society, Zoological Society.

Art and Science Schools, South Kensington Museum.

London Inst.i.tution, Glasgow Philosophical Society.

Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society.

Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society.

Town Hall, Birmingham; Nottingham Arts Society.

Manchester Athenaeum.

University of Oxford.

Eton College, Clifton College.

Wellington College, Yorks.h.i.+re College, Rugby School, Charterhouse.

Leeds Mechanics' Inst.i.tute.

Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society.

Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society.

Warrington Literary and Philosophical Society.

Yorks.h.i.+re Philosophical Society, Bristol Naturalists' Society.