528. ' EDITOR'S NOTE. 
register, and which has been continued by his family with 
one slight interruption from the year 1736 to the present 
time, afforded an annually recurring topic for correspon- 
dence, while his taste and opportunities for studying nature, 
led him to make many observations on rural subjects, the 
extent and variety of which may be inferred from the 
comments which they evoked from White. He died in 
September, 1797. 
By a curious coincidence, the only letter from Marsham 
to White hitherto published (that is, until the Norfolk 
Society printed those recently discovered) is one dated 
"Stratton, 24th July, 1790,'' to which the first of the 
present series, written on the 13th August of the same 
year, is, in part at least, a reply. 
This letter will be found at p. 356 of the present volume. 
It first appeared, under the head of Observations on Vege- 
tables, in White's Calendar of Nature," which was published 
-after his death by Aikin in 1795, and which has been since 
appended to almost every edition of the " Natural History 
of Selborne," although it formed no part of the original 
work. 
The tenth letter of the new series is of especial interest, 
as having been penned only eleven days before White's 
death, which took place on the 26th June, 1793 ; and hence 
it may be regarded as the last of his agreeable essays on 
Natural History, which to English readers must ever re- 
main as delightful in style as they are instructive in 
matter. 
It only remains to add that the notes appended to the 
following letters are those which, at the request of the Nor- 
folk and Norwich Naturalists' Society," were written by me 
in the spring of the present year, for publication in the 
above-mentioned Transactions." 
J. E. Harting, 
August, 1876. 
