The naturalist Gilbert White (1720-93) was known for his meticulous
observations of flora and fauna in their natural environment,
primarily around his village of Selborne in Hampshire. This
posthumous 1795 publication, edited by the physician and writer
John Aikin (1747-1822), comprises a collection of extracts from
White's previously unpublished papers from 1768 to his death.
Presented here for 'lovers of natural knowledge' is a full year of
White's observations. Following the month-by-month record of
natural events, the book contains brief studies of birds,
quadrupeds, insects, plants and the weather. A lifelong lover of
the outdoors, White had kept a near daily record of his activities
for more than forty years. Regarded as one of the fathers of
ecology, inspiring others to appreciate the natural world, White is
best known for The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
(1789), which is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.
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