238 A Proposed Bibliography of Wiltshire. 
The Birds of Wiltshire, by the Rev. A. C. Smith, in 1887; The 
Flowering Plants of Wiltshire, by the Rev. T. A. Preston, in 1888; 
and The Church Plate of Wiltshire, by Mr. J. E. Nightingale and 
the Rev. E. H. Goddard, now nearly ready for publication.' So, 
too, the writings of John Aubrey, Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart., 
Henry Hatcher, Richard Jefferies, and Canon John Edward Jackson, 
to mention the most distinguished writers on the county, are marked 
with a peculiar stamp of pride and interest in and attachment to the 
county. 
WILTSHIRE County FEELING. 
To keep alive and foster this county feeling, which seems to me 
specially a characteristic of Wiltshire, and a very valuable character- 
istic, and to add still one more work to the series of books of reference 
relating to the county, are further reasons, beyond those mentioned 
at the beginning of this paper, which induce me to hope that the 
Wiltshire Archeological and Natural History Society will favour 
and support the proposal for a bibliography of Wiltshire, in the 
compilation of which I shall hope to be able to share. 
Appendix. 
EXAMPLES OF ENTRIES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
The following entries are intended to illustrate how the work 
might be accomplished according to the rules mentioned in the 
paper, on a dictionary plan, z.¢., one in which authors and subjects, 
with full cross references, should be arranged under one alphabet. 
This plan, which of’ course admits of infinite expansion, has much 
1 This book was published at Salisbury, in March, 1892, a few weeks after the 
death of Mr. James Edward Nightingale, F.S.A., of whose able and patient work, 
for the county and diocese, it becomes an enduring memorial, 
