A veteran naturalist : being the life and work of Tegetmeier . his baldpate. In his own copy of the famous (and nowscarce) Savage Club Papers for 1867, which hegave me, he had inserted a loose-leaf pictureof an apple woman, with her tray of fruitdepending by a cord from her waist, as describedin the article. This is entitled The Coster-Girl, from a daguerreotype by Beard, andis engraved by E. Whimper. As it so aptlyillustrates the unintentional cause of the youngfancier losing his First Pigeon Race, and asit represents a type of London character that haspractically disappeared, I give a re
A veteran naturalist : being the life and work of Tegetmeier . his baldpate. In his own copy of the famous (and nowscarce) Savage Club Papers for 1867, which hegave me, he had inserted a loose-leaf pictureof an apple woman, with her tray of fruitdepending by a cord from her waist, as describedin the article. This is entitled The Coster-Girl, from a daguerreotype by Beard, andis engraved by E. Whimper. As it so aptlyillustrates the unintentional cause of the youngfancier losing his First Pigeon Race, and asit represents a type of London character that haspractically disappeared, I give a reproductionof this interesting old print, as also one ofthe frontispiece to the Savage Club Papersreferred to. Though chronologically out of order, I cannotrefrain from making here another reference tothe pigeonist of the Savage Club, if only tonotice a sketch of him and its accompanyingdescription, by his old friend and Brother-Savage, Wallis Mackay, when on an excursionwhich the Club made to Boulogne in the year1881. It appeared in Society for July 23rd, 1881,. Frontispiece to the Savage Club Papers, 1867.[By permission of The Club Committee.] 58 LIFE OF TEGETMEIER and illustrated some doggerel rhyme describingthe trip, the last verse of which ran as follows :— They went by special steamer (having left their special train),Their scalps were all intact and filled with (very) special brain ;The people, Mayor, Etablissement, the waiters, wines, and grub Gave one and all a welcome to our dear old Savage Club. Underneath Mackays sketch appeared thelegend: Here is the veteran Savage, the wilyscience chief, W. B. Tegetmeier, despatching histrusty messengers with news of the fact that thechildren of nature (of whom he is the chief estornament) have sighted the coast of incident goes to show how, when he wasinterested in a subject, Tegetmeier never lostan opportunity of experimenting, observing, orpractising the matter in pursuit. The aviary started as a pastime became asc
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