"Omnia benè describere, quae in hoc mundo, a Deo facta, -SCOPOLI ANN. HIST. NAT. London Macmillan and Co. Limited New York: The Macmillan Company BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE THE first edition of Gilbert White's The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne was published by his brother's firm (B. White & Son) in 1789. It formed a handsome quarto, was illustrated with a few engravings of no great merit, and sold at a guinea. No other edition was published in England in White's lifetime, but in 1795, two years after his death, and ere yet his fame had reached the point at which it could overawe an editor's judgment in selection, Dr. John Aikin extracted from his papers the materials for a much smaller volume to which he gave the title, A Naturalist's Calendar with Observations in various Branches of Natural History by the late Rev. Gilbert White. The present edition consists of a faithful reprint of these two volumes, and is, as far as the writer can ascertain, the first in which they have been thus brought together without any addition or diminution. Editorial meddling in the case of Gilbert White has taken a strange variety of forms he has even suffered the indignity of being arranged for young persons.' In 1802 an edition appeared of his Works in Natural History, the "Antiquities of Selborne," the artistic complement of his letters on its outdoor life, being omitted, as of too limited an interest to appeal to a discriminating public. The few pages thus saved were replaced by "a Calendar and Observations by BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE THE first edition of Gilbert White's The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne was published by his brother's firm (B. White & Son) in 1789. It formed a handsome quarto, was illustrated with a few engravings of no great merit, and sold at a guinea. No other edition was published in England in White's lifetime, but in 1795, two years after his death, and ere yet his fame had reached. the point at which it could overawe an editor's judgment in selection, Dr. John Aikin extracted from his papers the materials for a much smaller volume to which he gave the title, A Naturalist's Calendar with Observations in various Branches of Natural History by the late Rev. Gilbert White. The present edition consists of a faithful reprint of these two volumes, and is, as far as the writer can ascertain, the first in which they have been thus brought together without any addition or diminution. Editorial meddling in the case of Gilbert White has taken a strange variety of forms-he has even suffered the indignity of being arranged for young persons.' In 1802 an edition appeared of his Works in Natural History, the "Antiquities of Selborne," the artistic complement of his letters on its outdoor life, being omitted, as of too limited an interest to appeal to a discriminating public. The few pages thus saved were replaced by "a Calendar and Observations by |