ADVERTISEMENT. 



The favourable reception with which 

 the works on Natural History of my 

 late respected relation, the Rev. Gilbert 

 White, of Selborne, 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 

 3%e Natural History of Selborne^ 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 the observations are ap- 

 plicable to all that portion of the island 

 in which he resided, and wxre, 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- 



