NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



NOTES 



1 Mr. Bell, who lives in the house which was White's, says that the 

 rainfall at Selborne now is much above the average, and White rightly 

 attributes this to the hilly and wooded nature of the district. G. C. D. 



2 A very intelligent gentleman assures me (and he speaks from upwards 

 of forty years' experience), that the mean rain of any place cannot be as- 

 certained till a person has measured it for a very long period. "If I had 

 only measured the rain," says he, "for the four first years, from 1740 to 

 1743, I should have said the mean rain at Lyndon was i6\ inches for the 

 year; if from 1740 to 1750, 18^ inches. The mean rain before 1763 was 

 20\ inches, from 1763 and since, 25! inches, from 1770 to 1780, 26 inches. 

 If only 1773, 1774, and 1775 had been measured, Lyndon mean rain 

 would have been called 32 inches." G. W. 



8 A STATE OF THE PARISH OF SELBORNE, TAKEN OCTOBER 4TH, 1783 



The number of tenements or families, 136. 

 The number of inhabitants in the street is 313) T . ot ^ 676; near five 



In the rest of the parish 363 ( mhabltants to each 



J J ) tenement. 



In the time of the Rev. Gilbert White, Vicar, who died in 1727-8, the 

 number of inhabitants was computed at about 500. 



Average of baptisms for 60 years 



1729, both 

 years inclus. 



. 6,0 j 



12,9 



years mclus. 



1749 incl. ) 



* 



F - 6 ' 6 ) 



From 1760 ) 

 to V 

 1769 incl. ) 

 From 1770 



to 

 1779 incl. 



Total of baptisms of Males . 

 " " Females 



515 

 465 



640 



Total of baptisms from 1720 to 1779, both inclusive, 60 years 

 Average of burials for 60 years 



980 



1729, both | F 

 years inclus. J 



years inclus. 



Fem. 



1749 



incl. j 

 incl. ( 



1.4,6) o 

 f . 3,8f 8 " 



3,0 



From 1770 



to 

 1779 incl. . 



r,7 



1759 



Total of burials of Males . . 315 

 " " Females . 325 



Total of burials from 1720 to 1779, both inclusive, 60 years . . 640 



Baptisms exceed Burials by more than one-third. 

 Baptisms of Males exceed Females by one-tenth, or one in ten. 

 Burials of Females exceed Males by one in thirty. 

 It appears that a child, born or bred in this parish, has an equal chance 

 to live above forty years. 



