I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

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• Gilbert White:

  I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

• Gilbert White:

  It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces th

• Gilbert White:

  Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

• Gilbert White:

  The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

• Gilbert White:

  The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full

• Gilbert White:

  The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

• Gilbert White:

  Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the p

• Gilbert White:

  We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degre

• Gilbert White:

  You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter

• Laurence Housman:

  For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation