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The spiral galaxy M81 is a challenging object for testing a density-wave theory. It is of large angular size and favourably inclined to the line of sight; radio observations of neutral atomic hydrogen showing well defined spiral arms with noncircular motions are available (Rots and Shane 1975), and there is evidence from surface photometry for density waves in the old disk population (Schweizer 1976). Can these observations be unified in one density-wave model?