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PREFACE. 
scliools what and how to observe. Especially in the country 
should they be encouraged to make collections of common 
objects, animal, vegetable, and mineral. They should also 
be taught to recognise indigenous British birds and beasts, 
and to send in notes as to what they have observed of their 
habits. Such studies tend to sharpen the natural faculties, 
while they humanize the intellect. 
The publishers desire in this place to acknowledge the kind- 
ness of Lord Selborne in adding some valuable N'otes to the 
chapter on the Antiquities of Selborne, and allowing to be 
made for its illustration drawings of some curiosities found on 
his estate. 
To Mr. John Webster, Edgehill, Culter, Aberdeen, they are 
indebted, for his courtesy in placing at their disposal a few 
original letters of Gill)ert White never before published, and now 
printed in the following pages. 
It has only to be added, that the whole of the Engravings have 
been planned and executed under the able superintendence of 
the artist, Mr. Philip H. Delamotte. 
FEANK BUCKLAND. 
37, Albany Street, Regent's Park, 
Dreember 17, 1875. 
