A VETERAN NATURALIST 



BEING THE LIFE AND WORK OF 



W. B. TEGETMEIER 



By E. W. RICHARDSON 



With an Introduction by the late SIR WALTER GILBEY. Bart. 



WITH PORTRAITS AND MANY OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Demy 8vo. Clolh lOs. net. 



The wide scope and almost universal appeal of this 

 delightful "Life" are indicated by the following list of 

 subjects dealt with therein : — 



The First Pigeon Flight in England ; Use of Carrier-Pigeons for 

 Lightships ; the Discovery of the Cylindrical Origin of the Bee's Cell ; 

 Co-operation with Charles Darwin ; Long connexion with the Field ; 

 Introduction of Anaesthetics and Automobiles ; the Introduction of Decimal 

 Coinage in England; of Balloon Post and "Pigeongrams"; Axolotls ; 

 Aeroplanes ; Bees ; Cock-fighting ; Mendelism ; Micro-photography ; Okapi ; 

 Pallas's Sand-Grouse ; Pheasants and Game Preserving ; Pigeons ; Poultry ; 

 the Savage Club ; Snakes and Vipers ; Sparrows ; " Wireless " ; Zebras. 



COUNTRY LIFE says :— " In his son-in-law, Mr. E. W. 

 Richardson, Tegetmeier has a biographer who unwinds the 

 story of his life so skilfully as to impart to it the interest of a 

 good novel, yet neither minimises the importance of his work 

 nor makes for it a claim the reader will not readily allow. In 

 consequence, he has produced a real addition to literature in 

 A Veteran Naturalist. (Witherby.) The best praise we can 

 give th? book is to say that it is the opposite of an official 

 biography. Here are none of the characteristics that deaden 

 the interest of so many " lives " of great men — no solemn 

 formality, no consequential affectation, no dull letters from 

 celebrities introduced to trade upon names. The book has a 

 sunny welcome frankness which is usually forbidden to the 

 writer chosen in family council." 



THE FIELD says : — '* Mr. Richardson is to be congratu- 

 lated on the production of a very entertaining volume." 



THE PALL MALL GAZETTE says:— "Mr. Richardson 

 has had no easy task in presenting an adequate portrait of so 

 many-sided a genius. But, though he professes to give little 

 more than an outline of his father in-law's life and work, he 

 has contrived, by judicious selection and skilful condensation 

 of his material, to convey an excellent idea of his subject in 

 his vari us aspects of scientist, author, journalist, and 

 Bohemian." 



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