Identifier: veterannaturalis00richuoft (find matches)
Title: A veteran naturalist : being the life and work of W.B. Tegetmeier
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Richardson, E. W. (Edmund William), b. 1861
Subjects: Tegetmeier, W. B. (William Bernhard), 1816-1912
Publisher: London : Witherby
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ere pure and disinterested : he was a journalist,and not a purveyor of printed matter dressed upto tickle the palate of the public, and everyoneeasily forgave him an occasional outburst, alwaysof short duration. As one who evidently knewhim well -wrote in an obituary notice in aprominent provincial paper*: Among journalistsin London he was held in the highest honour.There was no more delightful or kinder colleagueor companion, and out of his long experiencethere was always something of profit at thedisposal of his friends. His memories of theFleet Street of the nineteenth century were fullof interest, for he had known in his time everyoneworth knowing. A colleague at Windsor Housewrote of him that he dearly loved a joke, evenwhen made at his own expense, as when a candidfriend once characterised him as the subtlestof all the beasts of the Field. On anotheroccasion, shortly after the publication of hisarticle on the habits of the axolotl, and its * The Bath Herald, November 21st, 1912.
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Tegetmeier, with Mrs. Diiapeb ami Sister.(From a Photograph taken in tlie vurhj seventies /;// Eihvird Diaper.) Faeiny p. 15-1.1 ON THE FIELD AND QUEEN 155 transformation as observed in captivity (theField, April 16th, 1870), a Cambridge friendreferred to him in a neat paraphrase as having the wisdom of the axolotl and the harmless-ness of the homing pigeon —a sentiment hugelyenjoyed by all who heard it, and regarded bythe victim as a compliment. Referring once more to those conflicts ofopinion which inevitably arose in the case ofso strong-minded and strong-willed an employeeas Tegetmeier, I have before me an old proofof an article on the Womens Suffrage question,which from internal evidence and the fact thatit was among his papers I infer was not published,or if printed in the Queen, re-written towardsits end, where it deals faithfully with what isdescribed as the worst hereditary disease thatcan afflict humanity. The increase of thisailment was instanced as the most markedresult

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