Show photos reveal gaits of horses and dogs doas forthe for the purpose of investigation and observation by scientists and horse breeders bleeders bre eders there Is being prepared for exhibition tit at the american museum of natural history in new york the skeletons of a racing horse and a running dog these are to be mounted side by side as in action offering opportunity for comparison of the respective gaits of f the two animals before starting the work on the horse doctor chubb devoted a great deal of time to studying the anatomy of the horse particularly while the horse was in action on the track but this was wag not regarded as thorough enough and certain questions arose in the doctors mind which lie concluded could only be settled by a series of pictures taken from a point over a horses back while the animal was in motion it was impossible to do this at the raa race tracks so various experiments were tried at the museum by means of ropes stretched from the museum roof to the base of a tree some 70 yards away a block and fall doctor chubb hoisted himself up CO 60 feet into a painters chair from which point with his hla camera wedged between ahls feet he took several photographs of a race horse speeding over a roadway below |