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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