110 LIFE OF TEGETMEIER 



the dubbing and trimming, he was accepted as 

 readily by the hens as a cock possessing all his 

 natural beauties of plumage. This fact was 

 directly opposed to the principle Darwin was 

 seeking to establish ; but it was a fact, and 

 Tegetmeier gave it without attempt to explain 

 or qualify. It is an example of the inflexible 

 accuracy which made him so reliable a colleague 

 in scientific inquiry. As to how freely Darwin 

 drew upon the information contained in the 

 pages of The Poultry Book, I simply refer my 

 readers to his works. 



But Tegetmeier was of service to Darwin in 

 other and different directions. In addition to the 

 above and to his observations on the formation 

 of the cells of bees, described in the chapter 

 dealing with those insects, he tabulated for him 

 from the Racing Calendar the births of race- 

 horses during a period of twenty-one years, and 

 also the births of greyhounds as recorded in 

 the Field for twelve years ; and in the great 

 work on variation, the whole of the engravings, 

 as well as a considerable part of the matter, 

 were produced under his superintendence. For 

 the great evolutionist Tegetmeier had, I need 

 hardly say, the highest regard and the greatest 

 respect for his teachings and work. He possessed 

 several portraits of Darwin, one of which always 

 had a conspicuous place on the walls of the 

 room in which he wrote. This was a remarque 



