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A SERIES of papers read at a symposium in Section D (Zoology) of the British Association at Cambridge on August 23 brought into prominence the recent progress which has been made in the study of animal locomotion. The movement of a fish, an insect, or a bird present problems in kinematics which are closely related to those of a torpedo or aeroplane, and it is therefore not surprising that they have been or are being solved by methods more familiar to engineers than to zoologists.
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British Association Discussions: Animal Locomotion. Nature 142, 513–514 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142513a0
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