468 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Museum of the Royal Dublin Society, afterwards the Museum of 
Science and Arts, his colleagues being Dr. Carte and Alexander 
Goodman More, and it was then the writer of this notice first 
made his acquaintance, while in 1871 he published his ‘Synonymic 
Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera,’ a work which formed an epoch in 
the study of Rhopalocera. In 1879 he was transferred to the British 
Museum. He joined the Entomological Society of London so long 
ago aS 1861, and acted as Secretary to that Society from 1881-85. 
He was known among entomologists as a bibliophile. He knew 
the literature of his subject as a whole better than any contemporary 
colleague, and his work principally lives in the different synonymic 
catalogues he has compiled on Lepidoptera, Odonata, Orthoptera, &c., 
for which his literary erudition particularly qualified him. 
But Entomology failed to confine his literary versatility. He 
contributed some bibliographical and other notes to Burton’s great 
edition of the ‘Thousand and One Nights,’ and his collection of 
European editions of this charming work is said to be probably the 
best in the world. He also translated the ‘ Kalevala’ from the 
original Finnish, and this, in two volumes, was published in 1907. 
On the Councils of the Folklore, Goethe, and Anglo-Russian Literary 
Societies he had served, and last year was President of the Viking 
Club. ‘ He was a mystic, deeply interested in Occultism and Theo- 
sophy, and possessed a very fair knowledge of the old Hindu philo- 
sophy and early Egyptian doctrines. He from time to time contyri- 
buted to the pages of ‘The Zoologist,’ and in 1908 we published a 
paper from his pen ‘‘ On the Longevity of British Entomologists.” 
Mr. Kirby was of a retiring disposition, and required knowing, 
but when that was accomplished a sterling character was discovered. 
Like all of us, he had his limitations and compensations, and his 
sensitive nature was easily disturbed. His congenial work was in 
a museum or library, probably in the latter. 
W. L. D. 
WILLIAM BERNHARD TEGETMEIER. 
WE regret to record that this well-known naturalist, full of years 
—for he was in his ninety-seventh year—passed away at Golder’s 
Green on Noy. 19th. _ 
Mr. Tegetmeier was born at Colnbrook, Bucks, in 1816, and was 
the eldest son of a surgeon in the Royal Navy, who was a native 
of Hanover. George II]. was then on the throne, and Mr. Tegetmeier 
