CONTENTS. 



THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 

 THE ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNT 

 OBSERVATIONS ON VARIOUS PARTS OF NATURE 



."AGE 



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 291 



SUMMARY OF THE WEATHER 437 



A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE NATURALIST'S CALENDAR AS 

 KEPT BY THE LATE GILBERT WHITE AND WILLIAM 

 MARKWICK, ESQ tjfi 



POEMS SELECTED FROM THE MSS. OF THE REV. GILBERT 



WHITE . 



BICENTENARY OF A GREAT NATURALIST. 



Sunday. July 18, marks 'he bicentenary cf 



the birth of Gilbert White, the fainouf 



naturalist. Always quick to utilise occasions 



in order to draw public attention to the 



literary resources of the Bristol Libraries, Mr 



Acland Taylor, the city librarian, has arranged 



an exhibition of books dealing with White's 



life and work. This will be in the Central 



Reference Library. The exhibition includes a 



fine copy of the first edition of the " Natural 



History of Selborne " and other editions of the 



same work, notably that published in 1889 and 



illustrated with woodcuts by Thomas Bewick. 



There is also a first edition of White s 



< Naturalists' Calendar published after his death 



in 1795. The fact that White spent " a seven 



weeks' season at the Hot Well at Bristol, from 



July 9 to August 30, 1753," will interest BIIB> 



tolians. /$ 2.0 . * 



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