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weather, with brisk winds and frequent showers; from June 4 to the end of July, warm, with much rain. To August 29, hot, dry, sultry weather. To September 11, mild, with frequent showers; to the end of September, fine autumnal weather, with occasional showers. To November 17, heavy rain, with violent gales of wind. To December 18, mild, dry weather, with a few showers. To the end of the year rain and wind.

1790. To January 16, mild, foggy weather, with occasional rains; to January 21, frost; to January 28, dark, with driving rains. To February 14, mild, dry weather; to February 22, hard frost. To April 5, bright, cold weather, with a few showers; to April 15, dark and harsh, with a deep snow; to April 21, cold, cloudy weather, with ice. To June 6, mild spring weather, with much rain. From July 3 to July 14, cool, with heavy rain; to the end of July, warm, dry weather. To August 6, cold, with wind and rain: to August 24, fine harvest weather. To September 5, strong gales, with driving showers. To November 26, mild autumnal weather, with frequent showers. To December 1, hard frost and snow. To the end of the year, rain and snow, and a few days of frost.

1791. To the end of January, mild, with heavy rains. To the end of February, windy, with much rain and snow. From March to the end of June, mostly dry, especially June; (March and April, rather cold and frosty, May and June hot). July, rainy. Fine harvest weather, and pretty dry, to the end of September. Wet October, and cold towards the end. Very wet and stormy in November. Much frost in December.

1792. Some hard frost in January, but mostly wet and mild. February, some hard frost and a little snow. March, wet and cold. April, great storms on the 13th, then some very warm weather. May and June, cold and dry. July, wet and cool; indifferent harvest, rather late and wet. September, windy and wet. October, showery and mild. November, dry and fine. December, mild.

A NATURALIST'S CALENDAR:

WITH OBSERVATIONS IN VARIOUS BRANCHES

OF NATURAL HISTORY.

EXTRACTED FROM THE PAPERS OF THE

REV. GILBERT WHITE;

BY JOHN AIKIN, M. D.

WITH REMARKS BY MR. MARKWICK AND OTHERS.

DR. AIKIN'S ADVERTISEMENT.

HE Rev. Mr. White, so agreeably known to the public by his Natural History of Selborne, left behind him a series of yearly books, containing his diurnal observations on the occurrences in the various walks of rural nature, from the year 1768 to the time of his death in 1793. From these annals he had already extracted all the matter comprised in the work abovementioned, down to the middle of 1787; but several curious facts in the preceding numbers had not been thus employed; and all the subsequent ones remained untouched. It was thought a mark of respect due to his memory, and to the reputation he had acquired as a faithful and elegant observer, not to consign these relics to neglect. The manuscripts were accordingly put into my hands for the purpose of selecting from them what might seem worthy of laying before the public. The present small publication is the fruit of my research. With no small pains I collected the materials of it, dispersed through the records of so many years, and gave them such an arrangement as I thought would present them in the most agreeable and useful manner to the lovers of natural knowledge.1

LONDON, Jan. 1, 1795.

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J. AIKIN.

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The "Natural History of Selborne" and the "Naturalist's Calendar' are singularly connected. In the last paragraph of the former work, Gilbert White announces that he had proposed to have added a Natural History of the Twelve Months of the Year, and that a main induce.

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