Notable People

Philadelphia 11 February 1892

Dear Sir

Although I have not the pleasure of your personal acquaintance, I may not be wrong in assuming that you know something of my work, and that my first experiments of animal locomotion were made with the co-operation of Senator Stanford.

I am now happy to say that after several years of privations, and laborious exertions, I have recovered the position--at least in reputation--from which I was displaced by the publication of "The Horse in Motion by JDB Still man," and have completed under the auspices of this University a comparatively exhaustive investigation of animal movements, and I avail myself of the oppor tunity to send you two pamphlets on the subject which I think will interest you.

I have recently seen both Mr and Mrs Stanford, and was very much gratified with the renewed assurance by Mrs Stanford of her belief that the interest and attention

Philadelphia 24 February 1897 Dr David Starr Jordan President of the Leland Stanford Junior University Palo Alto California

Dear Sir:

A few days ago, while looking over some of the results of my preliminary investigation of animal locomotion made in California 1872 to 1881, I found two series of transparent positives, and a negative, illustrating the stride of a canter by a pony when ridden by the young gentleman from whom your university derives its name. Thinking they would