A veteran naturalist : being the life and work of Tegetmeier . onemight almost say, a pre-historic interest,—Igive a brief resume of them here. In August, 1870, before Paris was besieged,Tegetmeier had written in the Field, apropos ofthe French authorities having forbidden thepigeon-races from the south of France to Belgium,that the strategic information conveyed by asingle pigeon might lose a battle or an June, 1871, he wrote in the Homing Pigeon: The battles and the empire were lost, and theFrench, shut up in Paris, were glad to availthemselves of the services of the comparativ
A veteran naturalist : being the life and work of Tegetmeier . onemight almost say, a pre-historic interest,—Igive a brief resume of them here. In August, 1870, before Paris was besieged,Tegetmeier had written in the Field, apropos ofthe French authorities having forbidden thepigeon-races from the south of France to Belgium,that the strategic information conveyed by asingle pigeon might lose a battle or an June, 1871, he wrote in the Homing Pigeon: The battles and the empire were lost, and theFrench, shut up in Paris, were glad to availthemselves of the services of the comparativelyfew homing pigeons that were flown in that were sent out in balloons, and whenliberated, conveyed to their homes the intelligenceattached to their legs or central tail then quotes at length the regulations issuedfrom the General Post Office, London, whichwere to the effect that every letter had to beposted open, and sent by registered was to consist of not more than twenty words,including address and signature, and be written. —» ._£ I Facing p. 69. THE COLOMBOPHILE 69 in French. The letters were to relate solely toprivate affairs, and no reference to the waror political allusions were allowed. The postalcharge was fivepence a word, in addition to a feeof sixpence for registration. Tours, then theseat of the French Government, was the head-quarters of the pigeon post, and here all lettersfor Paris were in the first instance photographed,on a reduced scale, on to thin sheets of paper,the original writing being preserved; but agreat improvement was invented by the Frenchphotographer, M. Dagron. The communications,whether public despatches or private letters, wereby his directions printed in ordinary type andthen micro-photographed on thin films of col-lodion. These tiny pellicles measured only some21 by 1J in., yet contained reproductions oftwelve to sixteen folio pages of type, conveyingon an average about three thousand light
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