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31 January 1902

161, King's Road,
Kingston-on-Thames

President Jordan

Stanford University

Dear Sir,

I duly received your
esteemed form of 26 Dec
last, and note with much
pleasure your communication
of the two books you have
been good enough to accept
for the library of the University
over which you preside, and
I therefore beg to say that well
knowing your own views in
regard to scientific research,
and having at my command
a few copies of the works, I
shall feel delighted to place
a copy of either or both of
them at your disposal, should
you be able to make use of them.

With regard to the zoopraxiscope,
I am afraid I
did not express myself
with sufficient lucidity,
it was not the apparatus
with which the pictures were
made, that I intended to
recommend to your favorable
consideration, but the instrument
by means of which
the various photographed
phases are consecutively
projected on a screen for
the synthetical reconstruction
of the original movement,
this apparatus I devised, on
the system originated by Plateau [Plato]
and was used by me at the
many universities and the
other institutions of science and
art in America and in Europe
where my lectures on animal
locomotion were given, and