200 LIFE OF TEGETMEIER 



Thus in 1864 he wrote a masterly account of the 

 history and progress of the sewing-machine for 

 the Times, and when the Willughby Society 

 was formed by members of the British Ornitho- 

 logists' Union, with the object of reprinting rare 

 and important ornithological works, he under- 

 took the duties of general editor, and himself 

 contributed two volumes to the series, viz., 

 Boddaert's Table des Planches Enluminies 

 d'Histoire Naturelle (1783), and, in 1882, 

 Lichtenstein's Catalogus JRerum Naturalium 

 Rarissimarum of 1793. A previous remark of 

 mine anent his unselfish devotion to science is 

 borne out by the following, written by a 

 naturalist colleague : "It was characteristic of 

 Mr. Tegetmeier," he says, " to appraise the value 

 of original observations made by his friends 

 or acquaintances, and, if found of importance, 

 to urge their publication, and even where some 

 persuasion was needed, to assist in editing them. 

 In this way he rendered a public service when, 

 but for his kindly collaboration, a useful work 

 might have remained unpublished." Another 

 naturalist journalist wrote of him: " The work of 

 Tegetmeier is not altogether easy to appraise. 

 He wrote and laboured in the cause of science 

 for a term long exceeding the span of an average 

 life Yet it may be his writings repre- 

 sented the least part of the influence he actually 

 exerted. It was as a mine of information, upon 



