Recently published Ornithohgical Works. 511 



between the published texts and the manuscripts^ especially 

 where White himself has thought good to divide a letter into 

 two portions or has joined two letters together, where he has 

 added new matter, and where a letter is undated or does not 

 agree with the date usually accepted. In the last case it 

 may be suggested that the date in the manuscript may denote 

 when the letter was actually written, and the date published 

 when the letter was finally despatched — a very different 

 matter in those days of difficulty of communication. 



Dr. Sharpe has done wisely to give frequent excerpts from 

 the notes in the well-known editions of Jardine, Bennett, 

 Harting, and Bell, the more so as the last-named had access 

 to many private family documents. 



The Editor spent several weeks at Selborne in preparation 

 for his work, and in some cases obtained further information 

 from the members of the White family. We hardly think, 

 however, tliat a Fellow of Oriel and a Proctor of his Uni- 

 versity should be represented as so much of a recluse, and 

 we could wish that some really capable person had been 

 selected to annotate the " Garden Kalendar,'' now printed 

 for the first time. Dean Hole, moreover, might have em- 

 ployed his well-known talents to much better i)urpose than 

 he has done in the Iutrodu:;tion to the same. 



Two facsimiles of letters by Gilbert White give i)leasitig 

 evidence of his skilful penmanship, while Appendices on the 

 Geology by Mr. Andrews and on the Bibliogra[)hy by 

 Mr. Sherborn are welcome additions to our knowledge of 

 those subjects. 



109. Shelford on the Museum of Sarawak. 



[Report on the Sarawak Museum. By R. Shelford, B.A., Curator of 

 the Sarawak Museum. February, 1901. Pp. 1-31.] 



This report on the Sarawak Museum gives a good account 

 of the progress of the institution under its present curator, 

 who is well known to us by his letters and papers. In 

 reference to birds, he tells us of seven species to be added 

 to the Borncan avifauna — Co tile riparia, Hirundo striolata, 

 Pratincola mauru, Pohjpleclron bicalcaratum, Lepterodius 



