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may be a spaniel, or indeed almost any breed of dog ; and it is 
true that White, who owned many dogs in his time, possessed a 
long-eared spaniel in 1792 (whose skin I may mention forms the 
binding of Thomas White’s copy of his brother’s book, now in 
my possession) ; but there is no reason to suppose that Grimm 
ever saw this dog, since there is no record of his having 
occasion to visit Selborne in the later years of White’s life. 
Since this view of the Plestor is not mentioned in the list which 
White gives of the sketches made during the visit to him in July 
and August, 1776, it must have been drawn at a later date, and 
it seems certain that Grimm was in the immediate neighbourhood 
of Selborne in the later summer of 1776, since I find the follow- 
ing passage in an (unpublished) letter to Thomas White, August 
12, 1776 : “ G. is gone to Winchester for 8 or 10 days. . . . 
on his return Lady Stuart desires to employ at Harteley.” If 
any cleryyman actually sat for the figure under the tree in the 
Plestor sketch, I think it is more likely to have been Mr. Etty 
than Gilbert White, since in the latter event there would surely 
have been some tradition of the occurrence in his family. There 
is none, however; and there is, alas, no real reason to believe that 
any vestige of a portrait of the kindly old naturalist is extant. 
July 3, 1902. Rashleigh Holt-White. 
A “WHITE” FAMILY BIBLE. 
HE interest shown in the loan collection of editions of 
“The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne” 
exhibited at the last Annual Meeting of the Selborne 
Society, was considerably increased, I think, by the 
exhibition of an ancient Breeches Bible, containing entries, on 
the backs of both covers, relating to the family of which Gilbert 
White was so distinguished a member. Some further particu- 
lars of the entries and of the book may perhaps be of interest. 
The title-page to the first part is unfortunately in a very 
torn condition, but enough remains to show the contents of the 
book. It was as follows : — 
“ The Boke of Common Prayer, with the Psalter or Psalmes 
of David, of that translation which is appointed to be read in 
Churches. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to 
the Queenes most excellent Maiestie. Anno 1601. Cum privi- 
legio Regiae Maiestatis.” 
Next follows : — 
“ The Bible: Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, 
and conferred with the best translations in divers languages. 
With most profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and 
other things of great importance, as may appeare in the Epistle 
