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that the strong opinion maintained by Harrington in 

 favour of the hibernation and torpidity of swallows, 

 greatly tended to confirm Gilbert White in the same 

 error. 



The Rev. Dr. Chandler*, to whose communications 

 White was greatly indebted for his knowledge of anti- 

 quities, and particularly for all that relates to monastic 

 and other religious establishments, was a distinguished 

 antiquary and traveller. He was a Fellow of Magdalen 

 College ; and from this position he was able to give his 

 friend material assistance as to the relations which have 

 for so long a period subsisted between that establish- 

 ment and the parish and institutions of Selborne. Dr. 

 Chandler and a small party, in connexion with the 

 Dilettanti Society, travelled in the classical districts of the 

 East in the year 1766, and the results of their travels 

 were afterwards published under the title of ' Ionian 

 Antiquities/ In the year 1769 he was brought into 

 close local association with Gilbert White from his pre- 

 sentation by his college to the livings of East Worldham 

 and West Tisted, both of them in the neighbourhood of 

 Selborne. He removed, however, to the rectory of Tile- 

 hurst, in Berkshire, where he died in 1810. One of the 

 results of his study of the history and antiquities of the 

 county of Hants was his life of Waynflete, Bishop of 

 Winchester and Lord Chancellor, which was not pub- 

 lished till after his death. 



His acquaintance with Sir Joseph Banks was probably 

 never very intimate ; and I have met with but one letter 

 from Gilbert White to him, which will be found in the 

 correspondence ; but the interest which he took in the 

 pursuits of this distinguished man, and especially in his 

 great undertaking his voyage round the world with 

 * See Letter to S. Barker, May 6, 1790. 



