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but I do not remember ever having received 

 a subscription." Probably he was "financial 

 secretary," or honorary treasurer — a theory borne 

 out by the following story told by Dr. G. L. M. 

 Strauss : " When my dear old chum Tegetmeier 

 joined the club the treasurership was entrusted 

 to him, which simply meant that he was 

 authorised to pay the rent of the club-room 

 and other incidental expenses out of his own 

 pocket, and try to get his outlay back again as 

 best he might. When, after five or six years, 

 he ceded his truly honorary office to Charles 

 Milward, we presented him with a microscope 

 in acknowledgment of his most excellent and 

 most thoroughly disinterested services to the 

 club. Yet such was our Savage perversity that 

 when Charles Quin proposed ' that this testi- 

 monial be presented to W. B. Tegetmeier for 

 having for years past embezzled the funds of 

 the club,' the worse than ungrateful resolution 

 was carried by acclamation." On this Aaron 

 Watson comments : " The story is quite true, 

 except as regards Charles Milward, who followed 

 Chatterton as honorary treasurer, and not 

 Tegetmeier. . . . The distinguished naturalist 

 was no doubt a good deal out of pocket as an 

 office-holder of the club ; but he says some- 

 where that he received about £40 in two years, 

 so that some of the members must have paid 

 their subscriptions after all." Chatterton became 



