CHILDHOOD OF A NATURALIST 3 



She was a daughter of Dr. Norman, of Langport 

 in Somerset, and Tegetmeier was thus the son 

 and the grandson of a medical man. Those 

 interested in heredity will probably see something 

 of the nature of cause and effect in this scientific 

 ancestry of a scientific man. Two other sons 

 were born to the Colnbrook surgeon and his 



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Sketch Map showing Tegetmeier's Birthplace. 

 Drawn by Mr. Tegetmeier. 



wife, viz. Godfrey Conrad, who died August 7th, 

 1887, and Henry Walter, who died on March 

 24th, of the same year. Tegetmeier had no 

 sisters — an unfortunate thing in several ways. 



Colnbrook is to this day a pleasant, old- 

 fashioned town, situate on the road from London 

 to Bath. Its main street, in which was situate 

 the doctor's house, is still quaint and countryfied 

 for a town so near London, and possesses many 

 half-timbered and gabled houses. So few 



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