142 LIFE OF TEGETMEIER 



bearing one characteristic touch of the writer's 

 hand. The proof has on the title-page the words : 

 "The Description by W. B. Tegetmeier, Esq.," 

 and the author has vigorously deleted the " Esq." 

 I mention this " unknown work " as evidence 

 both of Tegetmeier's versatility and of the fact 

 that he was, while busy stud}^ing natural history 

 and working on the Field, not above earning a few 

 guineas by writing descriptive matter for a book of 

 views. I have only to add that the " Descrip- 

 tion," like all his work, was very well done. 



The subject of bees continued, as we have 

 seen, to occupy Tegetmeier's thoughts for a 

 good many years, but he was of an inquiring 

 mind, and when he had learned all he could by 

 first-hand observation he was prone to seek 

 new fields of study ; and by degrees apiarian 

 topics ceased to figure among his contributions, 

 although, as the early numbers of the Field 

 prove, he was regarded as one of the first 

 authorities of the day on the subject. It was 

 in or about the year 1865 that Dr. Walsh 

 (" Stonehenge") then editor of the Field, invited 

 him to assume charge of the Poultry Department 

 of that paper, an appointment no man then living 

 was better qualified to fill. " Dr. Walsh's choice 

 was in every way a fortunate one," writes one 

 who knows whereof he speaks, " it gave a strong 

 and impartial authority wider influence for good 

 by enabling him to appeal to a much larger 



