MEMOIR OF 



from His works of Creation. W. Derham, Canon of Windsor, Manby, West- 

 end of St. Paul's, 1732. 



Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions. By Frances 

 Atterbury. Exshaw, Dublin, 1741. 



Discourses on the Four Gospels, chiefly with regard to the peculiar design 

 of each, and the order and places in which they were written, to which is 

 added, An Enquiry concerning the Hours of St. John of the Eomans, and of 

 some other Nations of Antiquity. By Thomas Townson, Fellow of Magdalen 

 College, Oxford. Rivington, London, 1787. 



Blair's Sermons, published 1777, and The Anatomical Instructor, or an 

 illustration of the modern and most approved methods of preparing and 

 preserving the different parts of the Human Body and of Quadrupeds. By 

 Thomas Pole, Member of the Corporation of Surgeons in London. 

 " Ad credes hominum prisca amphitheatra patebant 



Ut longum discant vivere nostra patent." 



Inscrip. on Anat. Theatre, Paris. Darlou and Co., Gracechurch Street, 

 1790. 



Mr. Bell informed me there was no portrait whatever existing 

 of Gilbert White. He however pointed out a portrait of an old 

 gentleman who was White's grandfather as well as god- 

 father ; he has a very intelligent face, strongly-marked furrows ; 

 certainly the face of a man of a well-marked character. White's 

 walking-stick was in one corner of the room : it is a pale 

 malacca cane; on the top is a silver plate bearing the figure of an 

 Heraldic creature, probably meant for a parrot. A portrait 

 in oil of the hybrid between a black-cock and a pheasant is over 

 the door. 



In the edition of 1713 there is a general view of Selborne. 

 The figure standing on the brow of the hill, in the old-fashioned 

 costume of White's time, is supposed to be White himself. He 

 probably wore a clerical wig, knee-breeches and buckles. I 

 tried all I could to get local evidence or stories about White. A 

 villager of the name of Henry Wells -a labourer, nick-named 

 " Farmer" told me that " White was thought very little of till he 

 was dead and gone, and then he was thought a great deal of." 

 He then referred me to Mrs. Small. 



Mrs. Small is ninety- three years of age. I found her to be in 

 perfect health, and a very shrewd, intelligent old woman. Mrs. 

 .Small was born in 1782, she was therefore eleven years old when 

 White died ; she could not recollect much about him except that 

 " he was a quiet old gentleman with very old-fashioned sayings ;" 

 and that " there was in White's time a biitcher's shop opposite 

 his door, and a butcher's shop is there now." "White used 

 to give a number of poor people a goose every Christmas. He 

 was very kind in giving presents to the poor. He used to keep a 

 locust which crawled about the garden." When I said " tortoise" 1 



1 White's tortoise was named Timothy. 



