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On the Law of Fatigue in the Work Done by Men or Animals

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THE Rev. Dr. Haughton, of Trinity College, Dublin, has recently brought to a conclusion a series of papers on Animal Mechanics, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society; The ninth of these papers was appointed the Croonian Lecture for the present year, and the tenth paper closes the series.

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On the Law of Fatigue in the Work Done by Men or Animals . Nature 22, 128–129 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022128a0

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