CHAPTER II. 



Youth and Education. 



In the year 1828, when Tegetmeier was twelve 

 years old, his father left Colnbrook and took up 

 a medical practice in London, establishing him- 

 self at No. 3 Great Ryder Street, St. James's. 

 The budding naturalist felt the change deeply, 

 and keenly regretted being deprived of the 

 opportunities of studying wild-life at home in 

 the country. This feeling was expressed in an 

 autobiographical article he contributed some 

 years ago to the Taller, wherein he says that 

 naturalists resemble poets in that " they also 

 are born not made," and adds the pregnant 

 remark that the attempt to make a naturalist out 

 of any boy not addicted to the study of animals 

 and plants would be a hopeless failure. " The 

 love of animals and the desire to observe their 

 habits and instincts are innate in the minds of 

 some persons, and these alone can become true 

 naturalists." The feeling of regret at having 

 to leave the country was also expressed in an 

 article he wrote for the Savage Club Papers 

 published in 1867. In this he tells us that the 

 desire for the practical study of Natural History, 

 " which has been a ruling passion with me from 

 my early youth, was sadly interfered with during 



