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THE following is a translation of an article in La Nature (December 5, 1887), on the mechanism of the flight of birds, by Prof. E. H. J. Marey. Through the courtesy of the editor of our French contemporary flight; that there might be obtained at the same time the positions of the bird in space at equal and known intervals of time; and I expressed the hope of solving by this method the obscure problem of the mechanism of flight.
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The Mechanism of the Flight of Birds . Nature 37, 369–374 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037369a0
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