CHAPTER XV. 



Other Zoological Work. 



One of the difficulties of recording so long and 

 varied a life as that of W. B. Tegetmeier is on 

 the one hand to avoid the Scylla of water-tight 

 compartments and on the other the Charybdis 

 of over-lapping. Had I attempted to compress 

 his forty-five years' work on the Field into one 

 chapter, it would have been more unwieldy than 

 it already is ; while if I tried to record his varied 

 zoological work without mentioning that in the 

 weekly paper, I should leave out many things 

 worth recording. Without further ado then, let 

 me say that his interest in natural history was 

 of the widest, and that the Field was but one of 

 the chief media for the outlet of his almost daily 

 increased store of knowledge on that subject ; 

 books followed articles, and lectures followed 

 books. Thus the arrival of a new animal at the 

 Zoological Gardens would be sure to be notified 

 to him by his friend Mr. A. D. Bartlett, the 

 genial superintendent, and the stranger — elephant, 

 rhinoceros, penguin, sea-lion or whatever it 

 might be — received full and graphic description 

 from his pen in the next number of that paper. 

 The information gathered might be extended into 

 a book or a pamphlet, or compressed into a 



