CONTENTS xiii 



CHAPTER IX. 



PAGE 



Barrington suggests account of Selborne Fauna — A new edition of the 

 * British Zoology ' — The letters to his family — To Gibraltar — John 

 White's winter-martin — Visit from Mulso — Letter to Pennant on 

 Gibraltar birds — Sends them to Pennant — Returns drawings to 

 Pennant — Hirundo hyberna — Mulso suggests spectacles — "An in- 

 exhaustible systema " — More Gibraltar birds and insects — Sends 

 collection to Pennant— Mottoes for brother John's book — The curious 

 birds drawn by Pennant's artist — More birds arrived from Gibraltar . 175 



CHAPTER X. 



Death of his sister— Gibraltar birds described to Pennant — Who orders 

 them to be drawn — Annus historico-naturalis proposed — Banks returns 

 — Birds sent to him — Kites on the Downs — Mulso becomes Rector of 

 Witney — More birds sent to Pennant — More Gibraltar birds arrive — 

 Linnaeus writes to John White — John White returns to England — 

 Banks' museum — John White at Selborne — The Selborne climate — 

 John White writes to Pennant — And leaves Selborne — The shivering 

 wren — Mrs. Chapono publishes — The sedge-bird — Clerical leases — 

 John White invited to Selborne— Bulfinch changing colour — Disputes 

 at Oriel — Banks and Lightfoot — Late martins — Hopes to visit 

 Lancashire— Goes to Ringmer — Swallow monographies— A guide 

 needed for Selborne . . . . . . 198 



CHAPTER XL 



Gilbert White unable to visit Blackburn — His nephew Jack at Selborne 

 — A flood at Selborne— Pennant's selfishness — The Wakes to be a 

 family residence — Linnaeus decried in London — A naturalists' treaty 

 — The disputed drawings in London —Refuses Cromhall Rectory — 

 The landslip at Hawkley — Described by Jack White — Letter to 

 Samuel Barker — Contemplates a Natural History of the district — 

 Educates his nephew Jack — Letter on the birds of Devonshire — 

 More drawings from Pennant — Mulso upon Selborne roads — Harry 

 White building at Fyfield — " Every man now publishes in quarto " — 

 Wishes to see Linnaeus' letter— Lever's Museum— John White's book 

 progresses . . . .... 237 



CHAPTER XIL 



CEstrus cwrwcawcZa— Hinged-shell tortoises — Nits on horses — Inquiries 

 for John White's son — The art of versification — Dryden and Pope — 

 Time's advances — In town with his nephew, Jack White — News 

 from London — The fashion "to look in picture books" — Dr. 

 Johnson's 'Journey through the Hebrides' — Rooks' wings frozen 

 together — " Have a good many cuts " — A flock of spoonbills — " I 

 want to see you the first of Faunists " — Another letter on poetry — 

 Thomson, Phillips, Somerville — Talks of building — Mulso hears and 

 praises his writings — Inquiries about Mr. Grimm — Opinion of 

 Grimm's work— Viper and young — Experiment with arundo donax 

 — Upland ponds — Murmur electricum — Swallow monographies — 

 Letter on the use of rushes . . ... 264 



