CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I. 



PAGE 



The influence of Mr. Grimm— Anecdote of a hawk — List of Grimm's 

 drawings — "If Mr. Pennant had got such a work ready" — Henry 

 White's new parlour — A title for John White's book — Consults an 

 engraver in London — A serious illness — The great parlour begun — 

 The Magdalen College archives — John White's book thrown aside — 

 Mr. Sewell upon Roman coins — The new parlour tiled — John White's 

 MS. at Selborne — Buys fields behind his house — Opinion of * Fauna 

 Calpensis ' — Samuel Barker at Cambridge — Late appearance of house- 

 martins — Mulso upon the view of the Hermitage — "One of the first 

 rooms in the county " — A new correspondent, Mary White — A weed- 

 ing woman . . . . ... 1 



CHAPTER IL 



The new parlour completed — And of singular service — Dr. Chandler's 

 assistance — Ravens over the Hanger — " I\ faut cultiver notre jardin" 

 — Dr. Chandler approves of John White's book — Gilbert White's 

 precision and integrity — ** Pray, come out. Now's your time ! " — A 

 Selborne anecdote — "The place where such a genius was born" — 

 Upton Nervett Rectory declined — A new correspondent, the Rev. 

 Ralph Churton — "The infirmities of a deaf man" — Mrs. Snooke dies 

 — Is his Fellowship vacated ? — The Oriel statutes — His income from 

 property — From his Fellowship — the Ringmer tortoise brought to 

 Selborne — Invitation to R. Churton — Experiments with the tortoise 

 — The great-parlour accounts— Gun practice in Oxford days — The 

 way from Oxford to Selborne — **A farrago of antiquities" — Zig- 

 zaggians v. Bostalians — Sleep of fishes — Search for house-martins — 

 Gibbon's History— Letter to R. Churton . . . . 27 



CHAPTER III. 



Account of Collins in the 'Gentleman's Magazine' — An anecdote of 

 him — A Heliotrope— Death of John White of Blackburn — Fate of 

 the ' Fauna Calpensis ' — Course of tempests from the west — A pro- 

 jected Canal — "Make haste, my dear old friend" — Sense of colour 

 in birds — An unnatural uncle — Grimm's drawing of the Temple — 

 Provost Clarke of Oriel dies— Chaucer upon the colour of leaves- 

 Frost over buried trees — Binstead Church — Letter to Mary White — 

 The Rector of Faringdon dies — " I wish you a Sinecure" — Swifts in 

 September — A local flood — November house-martins — Peregrine 

 falcon in Wolmer Forest . . . , , , 62 



