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CHAPTER XIII. 



PAGE 



Thomas White's inheritance— Proposed history of Hampshire— 'Fauna 

 Calpensis '— Mr. Holt's will— Interview with Grimm— Mr. Holt's 

 legacies— Gibbon and Gilbert White— Visit to London— " Send me 

 all manner of hints"— More about Mr. Holt's will— Corrects the 

 •British Zoology '—Services to Pennant insufficiently recognised— 

 The title of John White's book— Mr. Holt's affairs— Sexuality of 

 mosses— Mulso urges publication— The Holt pedigree— A new 

 Hermitage— The improvement at Fyfield — New Hermitage finished — 

 Grimm coming to Selborne— Burgoyne's light horse— Grimm at 

 Selborne— ** Your work will immortalize your place of abode" — 

 Gibbon's history— Thomas White prepares to retire— Grimm's 

 drawings at Selborne . . . ... 297 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Gilbert White, Vicar of Selborne, fetat 75 . . Frontispiece 



From an oil painting in the possession of the Rev. Edmund Field. 



Seal (arms of White and Holt, quarterly) . . On Title page 



Which belonged to Gilbert White, the Naturalist. IJ the size 

 of the original. 



Crest engraved on the head of Gilbert White's walking- 

 stick . .... On page ix 



Anne Holt, afterwards Mrs. John White . . To face page 16 



From an oil painting in the possession of the author. 



Chapel and School of the Guild of the Holy Ghost, 



Basingstoke . . . . . ,, ,, 30 



From a "view taken in 1760." 



" Westward of and adjoining to the ruins of this chapel, stands 

 a building consisting of one large regular room, about forty feet 

 in length and twenty-four in breadth : this is the only chapel and 

 school-room that of late years has been made use of." 



[From a description of the above "view," dated 1772.] 



1. Cup, presented to Sir Sampson White at the Coronation 

 of Charles II. ; and bequeathed by him to the Corpora- 

 tion of Oxford . . . . ,. ,, 34 



2. Pocket Account-Book, used by Gilbert White at 



Oxford . . . . . „ ,, 34 



The Church and Vicarage at Selborne, in Gilbert 



White's time . . . . . ., ,, 66 



From an engraving of a drawing by Samuel Henry Grimm in the 

 flrst edition of the 'Selbonie.' 



