100 LIFE OF TEGETMEIER 



left Great Britain ; and Tegetmeier visited no 

 other foreign countries but France, Belgium, and 

 Holland. Both were distinguished by "a pure 

 and disinterested love of science," but Darwin 

 enjoyed a competence, while Tegetmeier had 

 little but his brains and education with which 

 to start on the struggle for life. 



The introduction of the younger to the older 

 naturalist was brought about through Tegetmeier' s 

 friendship with Yarrell, the author of the well- 

 known and beautifullv-illustrated volumes on 

 British birds and fishes. Yarrell was then a 

 news vendor, living at the corner of Ryder Street 

 and Bury Street, St. James's, and he was the 

 landlord of the house in which the Tegetmeiers 

 lived. " He took me by the hand," says 

 Tegetmeier, " and as a visitor I frequented, in 

 the 'thirties of the last century, the meetings of 

 the recently instituted Zoological Society, which 

 met then over a bookseller's shop in Pall Mall, 

 opposite Marlborough House. My friendship with 

 Yarrell ended only with his life,* and to him I 

 owe my personal introduction to Darwin." This 

 is from the Tatler article referred to, and I could 

 not do better than quote the rest of the passage 

 describing this incident in the writer's own 

 words : 



" Continuing my love for pig« ons, I became 

 the secretary of the most exclusive pigeon 



•The author of the History of British Fishes (1836), and the 

 History of British Birds (1843), died on September 1st, 1856. 



