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THE

NATURAL HISTORY

OF

SELBORNE,

WITH

OBSERVATIONS ON VARIOUS PARTS OF NATURE,

AND

THE NATURALIST'S CALENDAR.

BY THE LATE

REV. GILBERT WHITE, A.M.

FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD.

WITH NOTES,

BY CAPTAIN THOMAS BROWN, F.L.S. &c.

A NEW EDITION.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY ALLAN BELL & CO. AND

SIMPKIN & MARSHALL; FRASER & CO. Edinburgh;
AND W. CURRY, JUN. & CO. DUBLIN.

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

051486

PREFACE.

GILBERT WHITE was the eldest son of John White, of Selborne, Esq. and of Anna, the daughter of the Rev. Thomas Holt, rector of Streatham in Surrey. He was born at Selborne, on July 18, 1720, and received his school education at Basingstoke, under the Rev. Thomas Warton, vicar of that place, and father of those two distinguished literary characters, Dr Joseph Warton, master of Winchester school, and Mr Thomas Warton, poetry professor at Oxford. He was admitted at Oriel College, Oxford, in December, 1739, and took his degree of Bachelor of Arts in June, 1743. In March, 1744, he was elected Fellow of his College. He became Master of Arts in October, 1746, and was admitted one of the senior Proctors of the University in April, 1752. Being of an unambitious temper, and strongly attached to the charms of rural scenery, he early fixed his residence in his native village, where he spent the greater part of

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