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380 DR. AIKIN'S ADVERTISEMENT.

ment to him to forego his intention had been the publication by Dr. Aikin of somewhat of the same kind: the commencement of the Naturalist's Calendar is a Preface by Dr. Aikin himself, explanatory of his part in the preparation of such a work from the materials left by Gilbert White !--ED.

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THE NATURALIST'S CALENDAR,

AS KEPT AT SELBORNE, IN HAMPSHIRE,

FROM THE YEAR 1768 TO THE YEAR 1793.

BY THE REV. GILBERT WHITE, M. A.

TO WHICH ARE APPENDED, PARALLEL OBSERVATIONS MADE

AT CATSFIELD, NEAR BATTLE, IN SUSSEX.

BY WILLIAM MARKWICK, ESQ. F. L. S.

PREFACE TO THE NATURALIST'S

P

CALENDAR.

HE mode in which the following rural Calendar of the year has been composed, was to copy out from the Journals all the circumstances thought worthy of noting, with the several dates of their recurrence, and to preserve the earliest and latest of those dates; so that the Calendar exhibits the extreme range of variation in the first occurrence of all the phenomena mentioned. To many of them only one date is annexed, only one observation having been entered. This is particularly the case with respect to the flowering of plants, with which the book of 1768 alone was copiously filled; and it is to be noted that this was rather a backward year.-[J. A.]

[In the preface to the edition of the Natural History published in 1802 it is stated that

A very valuable addition to the Calendar and Observations has been obtained from the kindness of William Markwick, Esq., F.L.S., well known as an accurate observer of nature; whose parallel calendar, kept in the county of Sussex, is given upon the opposite columns.]

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