130 LIFE OF TEGETMEIER 



first editor of the Graphic. . . . Tegetmeier was 

 not inaptly cast for a bird, for what that able 

 journalist doesn't know about the feathered 

 tribe is not really worth worrying about." The 

 appearance on thi3 programme of " W. B. 

 Tegetmeier " after a comic part — one cannot even 

 call it a character — in a burlesque, bears out 

 my suggested reason why he had previously 

 not acted under his own name ; for he gave 

 up lecturing at the Home and Colonial College 

 in 1866, the year before. Moreover, in 1862 he 

 had seriously thought of applying for the post 

 of curator to the Hartley Institution : he got 

 so far as having a set of testimonials printed, 

 including one from Darwin, but for an unknown 

 reason he never prosecuted his original intention 

 by formally applying for it. 



After relinquishing the post of hon. secretary 

 to the club, Tegetmeier served as a committee- 

 man for many years, and always he was one of 

 the most typical and popular of members, at 

 any rate until within the last few years, when 

 increasing age and growing weakness made his 

 visits of less frequent occurrence ; when most of 

 his old companions had one by one passed away, 

 and the new generation of members regarded 

 him more with the respect due to the " only 

 living founder " than with the friendly familiarity 

 characteristic of the club. Among his papers 

 I found a list of proposers and supporters for 



