xxx INTRODUCTION 



In 1802 there appeared in two volumes, 8vo, the Works 

 in Natural History of the late Rev. G. White, comprising 

 the Natural History of Selborne, the Naturalist's Calendar, 

 the Miscellaneous Observations and MarJcwick's Notes. 



The Natural History and Antiquities, edited by Mitford 

 (4to, 587 + 5 pp. and 12 plates), appeared in 1813. 



Rennie's edition (1831) was furnished with notes and figures 

 by the Rev. W. Herbert, Dean of Manchester. Edward 

 Turner Bennett edited an edition of the Natural History, 

 Antiquities, Calendar and Miscellaneous Observations, which 

 appeared in 1837 (London, 8vo, xxiv -f 640 pp., woodcuts 

 by Harvey). The editor died when the book was nearly 

 through the press, and his brother, J. J. Bennett, completed 

 what remained to be done. This edition contains numerous 

 notes by the editor, Bell, Owen, Yarrell and G. Daniell, 

 which are often useful, though too profuse. Bennett's edition 

 was re-edited by Harting in 1875. The next edition of import- 

 ance was Professor Bell's, in two volumes 8vo, with plates and 

 woodcuts (London, 1877). This edition was very careful and 

 complete; it included all White's published writings; some 

 unpublished notes on natural history ; his correspondence ; 

 letters by members of his family ; four unpublished letters 

 from Linnaeus to John White ; notes and a memoir by the 

 editor, who had for many years owned and inhabited White's 

 house in Selborne ; notes, chiefly on the birds, by Professor 

 Alfred Newton ; accounts of the botany and geology of 

 Selborne; a chapter on the Romano-British Antiquities by 

 the late Lord Selborne ; a specimen of the Garden Kalendar, 

 White's account book, and one of his sermons. Bowdler 

 Sharpe's edition, now in course of publication, contains the 

 Garden Kalendar. Other editions, which add little or 

 nothing to our knowledge, either of White or of Selborne, 

 need not be specified; they number altogether eighty or 

 more. 



The most attractive and useful of these editions, to those 

 purchasers who cannot command the original, are Bell's and 

 Bennett's. Harting's edition contains not a few good notes. 

 But almost any copy of the Natural History is sufficient for 

 use and enjoyment. White owes little to his many editors, 



