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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LORD SELBORNE, F.R.S.,

FROM WHOSE LARGE AND JUDICIOUS BENEFICENCE

THE PARISH WITH WHICH HE IS CONNECTED

BY TITLE AND RESIDENCE

HAS DERIVED SIGNAL AND LASTING ADVANTAGE,

THESE VOLUMES,

ENRICHED BY VALUABLE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM HIMSELF,

ARE INSCRIBED BY

THE EDITOR,

IN TOKEN OF SINCERE AND DEEP RESPECT

FOR HIS PUBLIC SERVICES AND HIS PRIVATE WORTH,

AND IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF

MUCH PERSONAL KINDNESS.

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

IN VOL. I.

South View of the Church, with Yew and Vicarage. Half-title

Garden View of Gilbert White's House, with the

Bay Window and Library added by the present

Cottage at Dorton. The Lythe was one of White's

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. Page lix

Page 72

Page 275

Page 310

CORRIGENDUM.

IN the Editor's footnotes to the first Volume, wherever the word

"Appendix" occurs, the words "Volume II." must be substituted.

PREFACE.

THE principal object of the Editor, in the notes which he has appended to the natural history in the present edition, has not been to treat at large on the general history of the various objects referred to, which would be wholly superfluous at the present time, when a knowledge of every branch of British natural science is so readily accessible, but rather to render as correct and complete as lay in his power the text of Gilbert White, with such additions and modifications as have been observed in the district since the first publication of his work-in short, Gilbert White and Selborne.

In fulfilling this object, the Editor has carefully culled many local illustrations from those editions which have emanated from men of scientific authority, as the Rev. Leonard Jenyns (now Blomefield), the late Sir William Jardine, and especially from one whom he was privileged to call his intimate friend, the late Edward Turner Bennett, who, for the purpose of rendering the notes to his edition as far as possible exhaustive of his subject, paid a visit to the place, and, with his brother and another friend, perambulated the district. The result of his perambulations, however, could not, necessarily, bear so much upon the zoology and botany of the neighbourhood as upon its scenery and geography, its physical conditions, its social

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