144 LIFE OF TEGETMEIER 



have seen in the Chapter " As Poultry Expert." 

 Poultry should be bred, he realised, with the 

 object of improving them as laj^ers and for the 

 table, while pigeons, less important as an article 

 of food, could be put to the useful purpose of 

 carrying messages, in the various circumstances 

 above alluded to. 



As Tegetmeier's writings in the Field alone 

 would fill volumes, and as his work can be seen 

 in the back numbers of that paper, it is neither 

 necessary nor desirable for me to attempt to 

 enumerate the many articles and notes he 

 wrote for it. There are, however, two or three 

 things he did for the paper, which may not 

 be so generally known. For instance, being 

 very fond of art, he took a keen interest in 

 the picture galleries, and for many years he 

 used to visit the exhibitions at Burlington 

 House, and then write for the Field an 

 annual article on " Natural Historv at the 

 Royal Academy." His criticisms of the pictures 

 were not always acceptable to the painters of 

 them; but they had the merit of being honest 

 expressions of opinion, while his knowledge of 

 anatomy often justified his strictures on faulty 

 outlines or impossible positions in the drawing 

 of animals. For false sentiment he had a great 

 aversion, and the " vials of his wrath " would be 

 poured out on untrue and impossible pictures 

 of the sentimental order, such, for instance, as 



