EDITOR'S NOTE. 
O the '^Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' So- 
ciety'^ is due the credit of having first made 
public the ten Letters from Gilbert White 
to Robert Marsham which are here re- 
printed. 
By singular good fortune these letters were discovered 
amongst other family records in the possession of the Rev. 
H. P. Marsham_, of Rippon Hall, near Norwich, a great 
grandson of the gentleman to whom they were addressed, 
and with great liberality he placed them at the disposal of 
the Society in whose Transactions they have been re- 
cently published,^ together with the corresponding replies 
from Marsham to White, the originals of which are in the 
possession of Mr. Bell of Selborne. 
Robert M *rsham, of Stratton Strawless, Norfolk, to whom 
these letters were addressed, is already known to most 
readers of Whitens writings as a correspondent to whose 
opinions the latter often referred in terms of respect. His 
leisure hours were devoted chiefly to arboriculture, and he 
delighted in making experiments on the growth of forest 
trees, the results of which he communicated from time to 
time to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal 
Society, of which learned body he was a Fellow. The In- 
dications of Spring,*^ of which he left such a remarkable 
^ " Transactions of the Norfolk and N'orwich Naturalists' Society.' 
1876, vol. ii. pp. 133-195. 
