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were concerned, the same kind correspondent 

 tells me the following incident : "I recall the 

 occasion when, staying at Loudenne " (Sir Walter 

 Gilbey's estate in the Gironde), "a countryman 

 appeared travelling in one of the dog-drawn carts 

 which are still used by a few of the people in the 

 Medoc. Tegetmeier had been very familiar with 

 the draught-dog in England in his early days, 

 but here was an opportunity for ascertaining 

 facts to compare with his gleanings on the subject 

 in Belgium. The countryman must have been 

 puzzled by the closeness of the examination to 

 which he was subjected regarding the draught- 

 power, staying capacity, speed, feeding and 

 breeding of draught-dogs. Finally we made him 

 mount the cart himself and be photographed in it 

 by one of the party. I say ' finally,' but it struck 

 me as characteristic that his busy brain should 

 have been ready with a few more questions on 

 points which occurred to him during the operation, 

 brief as was the time which it occupied." 



It is easy to understand that many of his 

 articles and notes in the Field were of a very 

 practical nature, appealing often to industrial 

 interests : in spite of, or rather because of his 

 truly scientific bent of mind, everything he did 

 had utility as its aim and end. He applied his 

 knowledge in dissection and with the microscope, 

 contributing thereby not a little to the sum of 

 general information on points of moment, to the 



