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III. 
THE CORRESPONDENCE 
OF 
ROBERT MARSHAM of Stratton-Strawless, in the County 
of Norfolk, Esquire, and Fellow of the Royal Society; 
AND 
The Reverend GILBERT WHITE, of Selbonte , in the County 
of Southampton, Master of Arts, and Fellow of Oriel College 
in the University of Oxford. 
1790—1793. 
Communicated by the Rev. II. P. Marsham, and Prof. Bell, 
September 28th, 1 S 75 , and March 1st, 1876 . 
[The following correspondence, between Robert Marsham and 
Gilbert Wiiite, hitherto unpublished, is printed literatim et 
verbatim from the original letters in the possession of the Revd. 
II. P. Marsham and Professor Bell, — the former a great-grandson 
of the one writer, the latter the present occupant of Gilbert 
White’s house and entrusted with the use of such of his papers 
as are known to exist. 
To the kindness of the Rev. H. P. Marsham of Rippon Hall, 
near Norwich, the Society, already indebted for a series of extracts 
from the valuable records kept by his ancestors (Transactions f 
vol. ii. , pp. 31 — 45 & 125 — 130), now owes the privilege of laying 
before its members and the public generally, the interesting 
memorials, (forming half of the present communication,) of one 
whose name has been so long endeared to every British Naturalist 
— Gilbert White. 
To Professor Bell, in like manner, the thanks of the Society are 
equally due for his courtesy in permitting the letters of a Norfolk 
