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PUBLISHERS’ NOTE. 
It has been thought best in this edition of White’s Selborne which 
has been edited for school and home use, to omit certain passages 
objectionable on account of the plainness of the language, many 
_ Latin words, phrases and quotations, and a few paragraphs of no 
special worth or interest to the reader of the present day. Latin 
words and phrases and scientific terms still remain on almost every 
page of the book, which could not be omitted without an unwarranted 
mutilation of the text. These may call for some explanation from 
the teacher or parent. 
For collateral reading the student is advised to consult Macmillan’s 
edition of White’s Selborne edited by Frank Buckland, Routledge’s 
edition of Selborne with notes by the eminent English naturalist, 
J. G. Wood, Appleton’s edition of Selborne with an introduction by 
John Burroughs; also a charming essay on “White and_ his 
Selborne” in a volume of John Burroughs’s Essays. 
