ADVERTISEMENT. 



The favourable reception with which 

 the works on Natural History of my 

 late respected relation, the Rev. Gilbert 

 White, ofSelborne, have been honoured, 

 by the persons best qualified to judge 

 of their merit, has induced me to wish 

 to present them to the public in a 

 collected and commodious form, free 

 from the incumbrance of any extrane- 

 ous matter. His largest work, entitled 

 The Natural Hi.stori/ of Selbonie, has 

 probably been supposed by many to be 

 formed upon a more local and confined 

 plan than it really is. In fact, the 

 greater part of tlie observations are ap- 

 plicable to all that portion of the island 

 in which he resided, and were, indeed, 

 made in various places. Almost the 

 only matter absolutely local is the ac- 

 count of the antiquities of the village 

 of Selborne ; and this seemed to stand 

 so much apart, that, however well cal- 



