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NATURE NOTES. 
THE PROPOSED WHITE MEMORIAL. 
When at Selborne on June 24th, I was asked by a parishioner my opinion as 
to a memorial to Gilbert White. I said I thought that the proposed scheme for 
bringing water from the well head to the village would be most suitable and 
appropriate. But I thought that there ought to be also some more visible com- 
memoration of the centenary. I very much object to the ordinary description of 
drinking fountain, but I thought that something sufficiently good and useful, with- 
out being ostentatious, might be devised, and I have now made a design for a 
drinking fountain of stone, surmounted by a small cross, with a panel for inscrip- 
tion in marble, in copper gilt, or in Pennant stone, and two texts : (i) “ Welcome 
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to the Weary,” (2) “ Come ye to the Waters.” Over the tablet is a panel with 
G. W. and the family coat-of-arms and crest, with motto, “ Plus vigila ” (Be more 
watchful). I enclose a sketch of my design. I cannot help thinking that 
something of this sort would meet with general approval, not only with the 
parishioners and visitors, but with the Selborne Society, and with the public at 
large. The material used for the pipe to convey the water ought to be well 
considered— seeing the recognised objections to iron or lead, even if cased with 
tin, and to glass lined, or enamelled pipe equally. The seat should be of oak 
plank. There might be a dog trough beneath, and a horse trough lower down 
to receive overflow, and a dip-well also. 
30a, Wimpole Street, IV. 
William White. 
