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him. Shall I desire Mr. Lort to enquire whether such a dedi- 

 cation would be permitted, and well taken. 



Poor Brown the artist ! it is the fate of most ingenious fo- 

 reigners : they have no manner of economy. Forster will be 

 soon in the same condition : he and his son dress like noble- 

 men, and give 60 per ann. for an house ! They have pub- 

 lished ' New Genera of Antarctic Plants.' Benj. has a share in 

 this book. There is Barringtonia, a Sheffieldia, a Skinneriaj 

 &c. &c. 



Their great work or ' Voyage ' is now under correction at 

 Oxford. Have your churchyards in the N. any yew trees ? 



Pray send me Reaumur's whole account of the Ilippobosca 

 hirundinis. Pray write soon. London is now Petersburg; 

 'it freezes under our beds with shutters closed and curtains 

 drawn. Bro. Ben.'s new house at S. Lambeth was last Sunday 

 Archangel, with therm, at eleven, and every thing ice and 

 snow. 



Yrs. affect. 



GIL. WHITE. 



My love to my sister. 



Look in Anacreon's Ode 43, and see if it affords any apt 

 motto for insects in general. I have been to Mr. Grimm*, and 

 am better pleased with his performances than I expected, and 

 think I must send for him next summer. Bro. Th. talks of 

 employing him some time hence. Excuse ; we are called to 

 supper. 



* [Samuel Henry Grimm, the artist who was employed by Gilbert 

 White to draw the landscape illustrations of his book, was a native of 

 Berghorff, in the Canton of Berne, in Switzerland ; but the greater part 

 of his life was spent in England. He contributed to the 'History of 

 Selborne ' the vignette of the " Hermitage " in the title-page, both views 

 of the church, the Temple, and the Pleystow. Whether the large folding 

 frontispiece was drawn by him is uncertain, as no artist's name appears 

 on it ; but the style, both of the figures and the landscape, is much in the 

 same character as his other drawings. He died in London, about 1794. 

 T. B.] 



