PREFACE 



partly filled-in Life-History Album, that had been 

 sent him for review. It is the second edition of 

 the late Dr. Mahomed's Life History Album, re- 

 arranged by Francis Galton, of Eugenics fame. 

 Had all the tables been filled up by the owner, 

 easy would have been the task of the biographer. 

 However, the " Genealogy " has many important 

 particulars, filled in by his own hand, concerning 

 Tegetrneier's family and life, which have been 

 of use to me in patching together the many 

 scraps of evidence throwing light on his long 

 and interesting career. No Diary appears to 

 have been kept by him, although he had the 

 habit of keeping newspaper cuttings, portraits, 

 and pictures, and all sorts of memoranda refer- 

 ring to himself, his writings, his work, and his 

 recreation. 



Fortunately however, for the world and me, 

 my father-in-law wrote so many books and 

 articles in which his learning, experience, and 

 character are necessarily exhibited, that there is 

 but little need of a Diary for the purpose of 

 forming a very good estimate of the man — at any 

 rate in his capacity as scientist, author, journalist, 

 and Bohemian. Tegetmeier's life-work is pre- 

 served in his numerous publications, and almost 

 literally may be applied to him the words of 

 Wren's famous epitaph in St. Paul's Cathedral — 

 " Lector, si monumentum requiris circumspice." 

 Of him it may truthfully be said, he never wrote 



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