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career he never fully qualified, though he was a})prenticecl 

 at the age of fifteen to his fatlier, himself a medical man 

 practising in Great Ryder Street, St. James's. Young 

 U egetmeier soon broke away from niediciue, however, and 

 became a journalist and writer on Natural History subjects. 

 His first published work, "First lines of Botany/' appeared 

 in 1849. During subsequent years he published many 

 works on Poultry, Pigeons and Pheasants and their manage- 

 ment in health and disease. In the meantime he became 

 manager of the Poultry and Pigeon department of the 

 ' Field ' Newspaper, a position which he held for over forty 

 years, only retiring in 1907. He also contributed the leaders 

 to the ' Queen ' for nearly twenty-five years. 



Tegetmeier was a fearless critic and prodigal of his 

 ex])ression of hatred for wrong-doing or injustice. He was 

 always ready for a fight when occasion arose, but he does 

 not seem to have been any the less popular on that account 

 at any rate with his colleagues in the ' Field ' office, where 

 he was always known as " Teggy the Fighter." 



The present biography is written by his son-in-law, and 

 gives one a very pleasant but rather rambling account of 

 the old naturalist and of his various interests. The author 

 apologises for his want of knowledge of ornithology and of 

 tli3 subjects which chiefly occupied Mr. Tegetmeier during 

 his long life, and in one or two passages this is noticeable ; 

 but on the whole the work is very well done and will give 

 pleasure to his many admirers. 



The introduction is written by the late Sir Walter Gilbey, 

 with whom Tegetmeier was on terms of considerable 

 intimacy. He, like Tegetmeier, believed that the most 

 satisfactory method of treating game and poultry and all 

 domesticated stock was to allow the animals or birds to 

 lead, as far as possible, a life that conforms to natural 

 conditions, and these principles were as far as possible 

 carried out at Elsenham. 



Tegetmeier's service to the poultry interest is impossible 

 to over-estimate. He was for a great part of his life a 

 judge at poultry shows, and when he commenced this work 



