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tadpole into the frog, or has its copybook of 

 pressed botanical specimens. 



Although Tegetmeier resigned his lectureship 

 to the female students of the Home and Colonial 

 Training College in 1866, he took to the last a 

 keen interest in the domestic sciences and the 

 education of women in all matters relating to 

 the home. The Working Women's College and 

 the Working Men's College, as well as the 

 medical education of women, were also indebted 

 to him for timely advice, frequent assistance 

 and occasional lectures. He often lectured on sub- 

 jects other than that of natural history. Thus 

 so early as 1861 we find him lecturing in North 

 London on " Lamps " — a subject on which he 

 was a great expert, before the days of cheap 

 gas and electric light. In 1873 he gave a lecture 

 before the National Health Society, of Adam 

 Street, Adelphi, on " Modern Dress in relation 

 to Health and Taste." But, unfortunately, he 

 appears to have thought so little of what he 

 probably considered " hack " work, that he kept 

 no record of his " popular " lectures, and it is 

 from entries in Mrs. Tegetmeier's diaries that 

 I gather he w r as in demand as a lecturer on 

 popular scientific subjects well on into the 

 'eighties. 



His lecturing, however, did not hinder his 

 writing, and his pen was always busy either with 

 original work or in editing scientific books. 



