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THERE are many places in England prettier than the little Hampshire village of Selborne, but none of them are so full of interest to the outdoor naturalist as the home of Gilbert White. Though more than a century has passed away since the simple student of nature's ways in the sleepy hollow of Selborne first gave the world the benefit of his observations and impressions, the book in which these notes are published is as fresh now as ever it was. The reason for this is, it seems to the writer, that Gilbert White was usually content to record facts as he found them, and he did not regard nature from the point of view of a pre-conceived theory. Accurate observations of natural objects and phenomena live for ever, but the explanation of such facts must alter from time to time as wider knowledge of the laws of nature is obtained.
A Bibliography of Gilbert White, the Natural Historian and Antiquarian of Selborne.
By Edward A. Martin Pp. xiii + 274. (Westminster: The Roxburghe Press, 1897.)
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A Bibliography of Gilbert White, the Natural Historian and Antiquarian of Selborne. Nature 56, 418 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056418a0
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