MEMOIR OF GILBERT WHITE. GILBERT WHITE--the Father of English Natural History-was born at Selborne, Hants, July 18th, 1720, in the seventh year of the reign of King George I., and died June 26th, 1793, being seventy-two years and eleven months old. In order fully to appreciate his labours, I will endeavour to throw back the mind of the reader to the prominent events of which Gilbert White might have been witness, or about which he must have heard people talking. Queen Anne died in 1714, six years before White was born. The year of White's birth, 1720, was the year of the South Sea Bubble. When he was one year old, 1721, the great Duke of Marlborough died. When he was three years old, 1723, Atterbury was Dean of Westminster. When he was seven years old, 1727, Sir Isaac Newton died. When he was ten, 1730, the great John Hunter, the anatomist and physiologist, and founder of the Royal College of Surgeons, was born. When he was twenty-five years old, 1745, Prince Charles Edward gained Edinburgh after the victory of Prestonpans. When he was twentysix, on October 22nd, 1746, he took his degree at Oxford, as I find from a book in my library entitled, "A Catalogue of all Graduates in Divinity, Law, and Physick, and of all Masters of Arts and Doctors of Musick, who have regularly proceeded or been created in the University of Oxford, between October 10th, 1659, and October 10th, 1770. Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1772." When he was thirty-two, 1752, the new style of computing the almanac was introduced into England. When thirtyseven, 1757, the conquest of India began under Colonel, afterwards Lord, Clive. When thirty-nine, 1759, General Wolfe was killed at Quebec. When he was forty, 1760, George III. ascended the throne. When he was forty-four, 1764, Canada was annexed. When he was fifty-eight, 1778, the Earl of |