TO 



ALFRED NEWTON, M.A., F.KS., 



PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY IN THE 

 UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, 



THESE LETTERS 



CONTAINING ALMOST THE ONLY " CONTEMPORARY ILLUSTRATION 



OF 



GILBERT WHITE'S CHARACTER AND CAREER, 



ARE INSCRIBED 



BY 



THE naturalist's GREAT- GRANDNBPHEWS, 



William, Earl of Stamford, 



AND 



Rashleigh Holt-Whitb. 



