1889

** The International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin II (1889) 'Are Instantaneous Photographs True,' by Captain Abney. (Muybridge included?) [Hamilton bibliog]

** Ramsaye writes that Muybridge gave lecture to Oxford Club, Brooklyn, in 1889. If so, must have been January as Muybridge in UK rest of that year. Also, Dancing Girl almost certainly not subject on pe-1892 discs. Ref: 'Ch.7: Black's Pre-Film Pictureplay. [Alexander Black, of the later Black's Picture Plays lantern shows]...was in the audience when Muybridge addressed the Oxford club of Brooklyn in 1889.....Muybridge presented on his "Zoopraxiscope" a picture of a dancing girl in a costume which interfered neither with her movements nor the vision of the audience. The stumbling of an usher or some similar mishap made a noise in the back of the house. Some one hissed for silence. Muybridge hastily assumed that the hiss was for his dancing girl picture. He stopped the show and harangued that staid Oxford club audience on the purity of art and the divinity of the human form.' A Million and One Nights. The History of the Motion Picture, Terry Ramsaye. (Talk to Oxford Club not found in newspaper searches.)

January 26 travels to Europe on Cunard Line's R.M.S Servia, which steamed from New York to Liverpool on 26 January 1889, under Capt. Horatio McKay. Edward Muybridge listed as a passenger travelling 'saloon class'.

February 7 Muybridge in London by (or shortly after) this date -Autograph letter Signed. Riviere, Briton. English Animal Painter. Dated Feb. 7, 1889, from Flaxley, 82 Finchley Rd N.W. To "My Dear Tadema, Many thanks! It would have given me pleasure to meet Mr. Muybridge - whom I remember very well - but I have some one comming here on that night." [Bookseller: Michael Good - Fine and Rare Books. Inventory # 06413]

February 9 lecture at Tadema's art studio in London? Suggested by letters of Feb 7 and Feb 11. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912)... arguably the most successful painter of the Victorian era. In 1883 the family moved to St John's Wood where they held the famous 'At Homes,' a feature of London Society.

February 11 letter dated Feb. 11, 19 Porchester Terrace W. To: "Dear Tadema, I was not able to get to you on Saturday as I had a cold in my eye & didn't like to venture out on such a night(?). Yours ever, G. DuMaurier". The bookseller says: The original invitation from Tadema was probably for a get together as Casa Tadema to view the primitive motion pictures of Muybridge scheduled for Feb 9th, 1889. [??] [Bookseller Bookseller: Michael Good - Fine and Rare Books. Inventory # 05954]

March (mid-late) London lecture/s, South Kensington Museum?

March 23 Pall Mall Gazette 'Menagerie of Muybridge the Magician'. Amusing account of lecture.

March 29 Pall Mall Gazette. Report of 2nd lecture, Lecture Theatre, South Kensington Museums.

March 29 Photographic News (quoting London Globe) 'Scientifically ... most interesting .. we doubt whether the contribution to art will be of much importance.'[ Hendricks 206]

May 8 lectures to Royal Society, Burlington House, London. [Herbert]

May 9 Daily News (London) account of RS lecture.

May 12 New York Times 'London Facts and Talk.' 'The Royal Society conversazione at Durlington House, on Wednesday night, was exceedingly interesting. There were more tables than one could begin intelligently to inspect in one evening, every one illustrating the latest advancement in some special science. ...Two of the exhibits [including] ... one of automatic electric photography, by Muybridge, were American products.' [New York Times archive online]

May 23 Nature 'The Muybridge Photographs' (Review of Animal Locomotion, etc), by zoologist Sir Edwin Ray Lankester. [Hecht 340T]

before May 25 Watercolour by British artist Thomas Walter Wilson (1851-1912) painted: Muybridge lecturing. Original signed by the artist, and signed and dedicated by Muybridge 'To Rose 25 May 89'.[Herbert, cover]

May 25 Royal Society lecture reported - including cover picture, an engraving adapted from the T. Walter Wilson watercolour - in the Illustrated London News. 'Muybridge's photographs of animal motion' p.647, reviews his motion photography to date. A montage of images based on Muybridge's photographs forms an accompanying page. This is an engraving, signed bottom right 'F. Naumann' (?), but T. Walter Wilson's signature bottom left indicates that this artwork was produced in the intermediate form of a watercolour painting. Muybridge's London address given as 38, Craven-street, Charing-cross.

Spring Royal Institution lecture. [Hendricks 213]? (probably not)

June 19 Ladies Night at Royal Society, London. Muybridge 'gave demonstrations'.

June 20 Daily News (London) account of Ladies Night at RS

July 26 Newark Daily Advocate (Ohio) '... upon The magic Lantern screen a rapid succession of those strange caricature looking and, in so doing, gave perfect pictures of the animals in motion. ...' [Googel News Archive search]

late August lecture Photographic Convention of Great Britain, St James's Hall, London. 'tremendous applause ... the most wonderful revelation of the age.' [Herbert 124] [Hendricks 213] [Coe M & C 22]

September lecture, Newcastle, (arranged by British Association?) [Herbert]

September second lecture, Art Gallery, Newcastle. [Herbert]

September 11 Edwardsville Intelligencer '... HORSES of a year or two ago with those last month and tell me if you don't think the old ones gave a better idea of the beauty of the animals in motion. ...' (Muybridge?) [Google News Archive search]

September 13 The Scotsman: 'BRITISH ASSOCIATION' (lecture report?) [The Scotsman digital archive online]

September 27 BJP reports on Newcastle lectures. First lecture 'he could not be heard in the corridor to which he had been relegated, nor could the wonderful pictures ... be seen'. Problem resolved with second lecture, 'audience were delighted and astonished...' [Herbert 124]

October 14 New York Times 'TAKING PICTURES FOR FUN.' 'The members of the Society of Amateur Photography at a recent meeting were much interested in a number of instantaneous pictires of animals and objects in motion made by Ottomar Anschuetz of Lissa, Prussia. Herr Anschuetz has gone into the subject even more deeply than Muybridge and Marey, and for months has been expperimentimg in instantaneous work and the use of quick developers...' [New York Times archive online]

October 28 lecture to the Literary and Philosophical Society 'The Science of Animal Locomotion in Relation to Design in Art', The Music Hall, Surrey Street, Sheffield. [Herbert]

November 7 lecture to Brisol Naturalists' Society, Victoria Rooms, Bristol, to audience of 'upwards of 400'. [Herbert 125]

November 17 ALS (letter) to A. E. Jessup, Esq., 38 Craven St., Charing Cross, London.[Herman W. Liebert Manuscript Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.]

November 21 lecture 'Wellington School' (Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire) to the boys of the Natural Science Society. [Herbert]

November 26 Leeds Daily News advert for lecture in the Albert Hall following day. [Herbert 125]

November 27 lecture Leeds, to Leeds Mechanics' Institution, and Literary Society. [Herbert]

November 30 Leeds Saturday Journal 'Whispers of the Week': '...One of the results of his research is a book he desires to sell at the modest price of one hundred pounds per copy.' [Herbert]

November 22 BJP announces forthcoming lecture at Bath, 'under the auspices of the Major of Bath and the Presidents and Officers of all the local scientific and art societies, including the Bath Photographic Society.' [Herbert 126]

December 2 lecture, Assembly Rooms, Bath. [Herbert]

December lecture Royal Institution, London. [Adams. W.P., BJP vol 36 p.826] [Hecht 336G]

[possibly Dec 12th -see: English Mechanic p.176??] December 20 BJP includes 'Muybridge at the London Institution,' extensive piece by W. P. Adams. [Hamilton bibliog]

** Cyclopaedia of the Diseases of Children Keating, John M. (J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia). Four volumes (1889 on copyright page, 1890 on title page) (including a series of photographs by Eadweard Muybridge in Volume 4). BL entry: Cyclopaedia of the Diseases of Children, Medical and Surgical ... Edited by J. M. Keating. Illustrated. (Supplement. Edited by W. A. Edwards.) 5 vol. Y. J. Pentland: Edinburgh & London; Philadelphia [printed], 1889-99.

** Library Chronicle: Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Library Association. Library, 1889; s1-1: 377 - 399. [......reception Committee gave a conversazione in Stationers' Hall, which was largely attended and was thoroughly enjoyed. Mr. Eadweard Muybridge, of animal locomotion celebrity, had very generously volunteered his services for the evening, and his lecture, illustrated....]

** (1889) English photographer P.H. Emerson writes ' ... nothing is more inartistic than some positions of a galloping horse, such as are never seen by the eye yet exist in reality, and have been recorded by Mr. Muybridge.' [Ayers]

1890

January 7 Liverpool Daily Post advertises 'associated soiree' - Muybridge lecture only a part. [Herbert 126]

January 8 lecture in small concert-room, St George's Hall, Liverpool. [Hendricks 213]

January 9 the Associated Societies' Soiree of Jan 8 reported, Liverpool Daily Post. [Herbert 150]

January 11 Liverpool Weekly Mercury account of Jan 8 Liverpool lecture. [Herbert 150]

January 18 'La Chronophotographie' published in La Nature No.868 (p96-98), by Albert Londe. (Mostly about Marey, but mentions Muybridge).

January and February Manchester lectures. [Hendricks 213]

January lecture prospectus published in England, The Science of animal locomotion in its relation to design in art: 'syllabus of a course of two lectures.. when one lecture alone is given it consists of a condensed edition.'.[Scrap]

January 25 East Anglian Daily Times advert for February 3 Ipswich lecture. [Herbert 150]

February 'Experiences of Professor Eadweard Muybridge': report of an interview with Muybridge, in the Optical Magic Lantern Journal. [Hecht 351H].

February 3 lecture at Lecture Hall, Tower Street, Ipswich, arranged by the Scientific Society. [Herbert 127]

February 4 East Anglian Daily Times account of Feb 3 Ipswich lecture. [Herbert 150]

February 10 Irish Times advert for Dublin lectures. [Herbert]

February 11 lecture, The Science of Animal Locomotion in Relation to Art and Design, Hall of Young Men's Christian Association, arranged by Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Association. Belfast. [Herbert]

February 12 Belfast News-Letter report of Feb 11 lecture. [Herbert]

February 12 lecture Royal Dublin Society , lecture theatre, Leinster House, Kildare St, Dublin. [Herbert]

February 13 lecture Belfast. [Herbert 128]

February 14 Belfast News-Letter report of Feb 13 lecture, Operator: Mr Webster. [Herbert]

February 14 lecture Royal Dublin Society, lecture theatre, Leinster House, Kildare St, Dublin.

February 17 lecture Dublin, for Photographic Society of Ireland, Antient Concert Rooms, Great Brunswick Street. [Herbert 129]

February 26 Lecture Queen's Rooms Glasgow 'under the auspices of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow'. [The Scotsman digital archive online]

February 27 'THE SCIENCE OF ANIMAL LOCOMOTION IN RELATION TO ART DESIGN'. The Scotsman report of lecture 'last evening' by 'Mr. E. Maybridge' (sic). [The Scotsman digital archive online]

February 27 lecture Queen's Rooms, Glasgow, for the Glasgow Philosophical Society, acting as the Glasgow Science Lectures Association Trust. (Was this in fact the lecture held on 26th?). [Herbert 129]

March 11, 13, 14 Birmingham Daily Post news/reports of lectures. [Herbert 150 n.141]

March 12 lecture Birmingham, The Motions of Animals, Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society, Town Hall. [Herbert 128]

March 13 lecture Mason College, Birmingham. 'Mr Maybridge [sic] said he would state quite frankly that his chief object in coming to England was not to lecture but to sell his book..'. [Herbert 129]

March 14 lecture Birmingham, The Motions of Animals, Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society, Town Hall. '... second in a course of two lectures'. [Herbert] also: The Midland Naturalist: Journal of the Midland Union of Natural History v.13-14 1890-1891. ÔThe Council refer with spcial pleasure to the Muybridge Lectures on the ÒMotion of AnimalsÓ, illustrated by remarkably fine lantern views, that were delivered on March 12th....Õ ,

April 1 query re: availability of Zoopraxiscope discs, in Optical Magic Lantern Journal.

April 1 Western Electrician reports on Edison magic lantern (tachyscope?) 'press preview' projection by W.K.L. Dickson (for Edison) of 'actual performances of living persons', Lenox Lyceum exhibition, New York City. Posssibly copies of Muybridge Animal Locomotion series used. (Not shown to public). [Hend EMPM 93] (Possibly journalist anticipating something that had been expected but didn't actually happen? In same way as reports of kinetoscope at World's Fair?)

April 27 Galveston Daily News "... by the discovery of the instantaneous process of photography, by which animals In motion or a cannon ball flying through The air have been photographed. ..." (Muybridge? check) [Goodle News Archive search]

Summer returns to United States. [Herbert]

August 22 'in New York.' [Hendricks 213]

late Summer/early Autumn back in England. [Herbert]

October 13 lecture Birmingham. The Science of Animal Locomotion in its Relation to Design in Art (pt 1), Midland Institute. [Herbert]

October 20 lecture Birmingham. The Science of Animal Locomotion in its Relation to Design in Art (pt 2), Midland Institute. [Herbert]

November 27 lecture Kinnaird Hall, Dundee, one of the Armitstead Lectures. [Herbert 130]

** Library notes and news. Library [OUP periodical], 1890; s1-2: 160 - 165.......Chetham Library. MANCHESTER.--The Free Library Committee have ordered for the Free Reference Library a complete set of Mr. Muybridge's instantaneous photographs of animals in motion...].

1891

** lectures in Germany.

March 9 lecture at Urania theatre Berlin, audience of 500. [Rossell, Chronology 122] [Hendricks says 'March 21st for several lectures'.]

March 10 Chicago Tribune 'General Foreign News. A Pennsylvanian in Berlin. BERLIN, March 9- Prof. Muybridge of the University of Pennsylvania upon invitation delivered a lecture at the Urania Inbstitute this evening on "Animal Locomotion." The lecture was illustrated by "snap-shot" photographs of animals in motion. In the audience were Dr. von Gossler, the Minister of Educational Affairs, and about 500 artists and scientists, who followed the lecturer with deep interest, although he spoke in English.'

April 2 Anschutz (in his own lecture) says he had 'not expected anything so deficient.' [Hecht 361C]

April Photographische Correspondenz, includes Muybridge content. [Hamilton bibliog]

May 9 p.214 Anthony's Photographic Bulletin notes Berlin lecture/s. [Hendricks 214]

**Technische Hochschule lecture?

May Photographische Correspondenz, includes Muybridge content. [Hamilton bibliog]

** Critical review of lectures by Bruno Meyer, in Deutsches Photographen-Zeitung Nos. 12, 14, 15. [Herbert]

June 5 New York Times 'BOOKS SOLD AT AUCTION: Muybridge's collection of plates, illustrating animal locomotion by means of electric photographs, was sold for $24.' [New York Times archive online]

June 13 Harper's Weekly article by Lathrop (on Edison) mentions Muybridge exposure times. [Hend EMPM 10]

June Manufacturer and Builder, 'Edison's Kinetograph' 'If Mr. Edison is correctly reported, he exhibits in this statement an unaccountable ignorance of Mr Muybridge's wonderful work in this direction, with which the entire scientific world is quite familiar. The adaptation of Mr Muybridge's series of pictures to the projecting lantern have been shown in nearly every large city in this country as well as in Europe....' (etc) [The Making of America collection at:
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/]

July Photographische Correspondenz, includes Muybridge content. [Hamilton bibliog]

July 15 letter to J. Y. Burk, from Berlin, re: his positive reception, etc.(wrong date on website). Muybridge's address: c/o J B Lippincott Co, 10 Henrietta St, Covent Garden, London.

July Photographische Correspondenz, includes Muybridge content. [Hamilton bibliog]

July Manufacturer and Builder 'The Muybridge Pictures of Animals in Motion' (letter). Correspondent wants to know "... if Mr. Muybridge's projection apparatus has ever been described, or if it can be purchased anywhere? - F.S.., New York." [The Making of America collection at:
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/]

** Reviews of Muybridge lectures 'excellent'. 'Only the discerning eye of Ottomar Anschutz discovered many a fault'. [Hecht 361C]

August 1 'Etudes sur la locomotion animale: travaux de M. Muybridge', by Gaston Tissandier, in La Nature No.948. With four engravings based on Muybridge photo sequences.

August Manufacturer and Builder, 'Instantaneous Photography on the Race Track.' First 'photo-finish' photographer appointed. Muybridge mentioned in text.

[The Making of America collection at:
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/]

September 4 BJP includes Muybridge? [Hamilton bibliog]

October 18 New York Times 'New Books': Recalled to Life by Grant Allen (Henry Holt & Co.), reviewed. 'Mr Callingham has invented what he calls 'the acmegraphic process,' something like the Muybridge plan of taking instantaneous pictures.... One day Mr. Callingham is found murdered......' [New York Times archive online]

November 15 'La Chronophotographie' by E.J. Marey, in Revue Generale des Sciences, includes Muybridge? [Hamilton bibliog]

** lectures elsewhere in Europe during Spring/Summer, before returning to USA in November. Descriptive Zoopraxography (published 1893) lists: The Society of Artists, Vienna; The Society of Artists, Munich; The Polytechnic High School, Vienna; The Polytechnic High School, Munich; The University of Turin. All must be 1891, but exact dates not known. The following press notices were reproduced in :
'A very large number could not obtain admission, so great was the desire to hear the lecture ... A wonderful surprise even to the careful observer of Nature.' - Die Press, Vienna.
'The lecture was given in the popular manner, with scientific accuracy and artistic taste ... The room was filled to the last corner; nearly all the Royal Family and the Ministers were present.' - Munchener Neueste Nachrichten, Munich.

November 25 returns to America on the Ohio, from Liverpool.

December 7 (?) arrives Philadelphia.

December 19 letter from Edison encouraging idea of insect flight photography. [Hendricks 216]

The Science of Animal Locomotion pamphlet. (c) Kingston Museum

Autumn /Winter? pamphlet, The Science of Animal Locomotion (Zoopraxography): An Electro-Photographic Invesigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements published. [Hecht 362M]

** Photographische Nachrichten Band III Nr.12 (Jarhgang 1891), includes Muybridge content. [Hamilton bibliog]

1892

January 24 New York Times page 11, 363 words. 'University of Pennsylvania.' 'Prof. Eadweard Muybridge, whose work on the photography of animals in motion has made him famous, has returned to the University after an absence of many months...'

February 11 letter to David Starr Jordan, President of Leland Stanford Junior University; would they help re: flight of insects research. [Hecht 372B] [Haas 169]

February 11 letter to Lewis Steiner, Baltimore, re: use of professional qualification indicators. And, he has asked Judge Morris to see Mr Pratt re: purchasing set of Animal Locomotion plates for the library. Also, 'I shall probably leave for California within a couple of weeks.' [Lewis H Steiner papers (subseries 3 box 1, folder 22) Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore]

February 15 Thomas J. Morris writes to Enoch Pratt (following Muybridge's request) recommending purchase of set of Animal Locomotion plates for the Enoch Pratt Free Library. '...if you will speak to Dr Steiner he will explain the use of them more fully'. Letter is marked by Pratt: 'Reply to Dr Steiner & [I] wish to see him on subject.' [Lewis H Steiner papers (subseries 3 box 1, folder 22) Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore]

March Muybridge in California. [Haas 169]

March 5 Aspen Weekly Times (Aspen, Pitkin County) 'Aspen's Flying Machine.' '...Professor Edward Muybridge, of the university of Pennsylvania, whose study of animal locomotion, and whose volume on that subject made him famous, a few years ago, has set himself to a new task. He believes he is on the right track toward the construction of a flying machine, and, with the support of such men as Edison, Sir John Lubbock, Von Helmholtz, Sir William Thompson and others, is prepared to push foward his investigations.....scientists feel that a knowledge of the aerial navigation of insects will be the greatest leap forward ... can only be obtained through photography ... the only man who is capable of conducting ... the work...Professor Muybridge...willing to undertake the project...and so stated last night at his residence.' (Extensive comments by Muybridge follow). [http://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org]

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