> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 251](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066591) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11619-1) LSID 11619-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q772840) QID Q772840 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author White, Gilbert (1720-1793), British curate and naturalist; B.A. Oxford 1743, MA 1746; curate at Swarraton 1746-1751, at Selborne 1751; proctor of Oxford University 1752, curate at Selborne from ca. 1758. **Abbreviated name**: *G. White* \[standard form in IPNI: *G.White*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. – White marked Selborne plants in a copy of W. Hudson, *Flora anglica* (see Britten (1893)). Mss. at Gilbert White Museum, Selborne. – *Letters* e.g. at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 486 (b. 18 Jul 1720, d. 26 Jun 1793); BB p. 324; BM 5: 2309, 8: 1425-1426; Dawson p. 868; Desmond p. 655 (further refs.); DNB 61: 36-48; Dryander 3: 417; DSB 14: 299-300 (61: 36-48) (E.W. Groves); Henrey 2: 301; Herder p. 236; HU 707, 741; Jackson p. 213; PR ed. 1: 11195-11196; Rehder 5: 917; TL-2/see Th. Pennant; Tucker 3: 333. #### Biofile - Allen, D.E.,The Naturalist in Britain 1976, see index. - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 3: 2684-2685. 1880. - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 256: 619-626. 1955. - Barber, L., The heyday of natural history 1820-1870, London 1980, p. 13-15, 41-44, 42, 59. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 447 \[index\]. 1980. - Britten, J., J. Bot. 31: 289-294. 1893. - Clegg, J., G. White, Garden Kalendar, 1751-1771, repr. in facs., introd., notes. London 1975, xxviii, 221, \[xii\] p. - Emden, C.S., Gilbert White and his Village, London 1956. - Foster, P.G.M., Arch. nat. hist. 12(1): 1-21. 1985 (four letters by W. Sheffield to W.). - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 1495-1900, 363-365. 1980. - Holt-White, R., The life and letters of Gilbert White, London 1901, 2 vols., xv, 330 and ix, 300 p. (1055, mss.). - Houstoun, M. apud Jesse, E., *in* G. White, Nat. hist. Selborne London 1854, p. v-xxiv (biogr.). - Jenkins, A.C., The naturalists 52-62. 1978. - Johnson, W., ed., Gilbert White, journals 1971, 463 p. - Le Rougetel, H., J.R. Hort. Soc. 96(9): 412-418. 1971 (on G.W. and Philip Miller). - Lockley, R.M., Gilbert White 1976, 136 p. - Mabey, R., Gilbert White's year: passages from The garden kalendar & The Naturalist's Journal, 1979, 92 p. - McLachlan, K., J.R. Hort. Soc. 95(3): 119-123. 1970, 96(9): 412-418. 1971 (on W.'s gardens). - Martin, E.G., Bibliography of Gilbert White, London 1897, rev. ed. 1934, further ed. Folkestone-London 1970, 201 p. (collation of all editions of Nat. hist. Selborne up to 1930, major bibliographic source). - Mathews, G.M., Ibis ser. 14. 2: 537-538. 1938 (date of publ. of J. Rennie's edition: Jan 1833). - Perring, F., New Scientist 47(710): 126-128. 1970 (Selborne revisited). - Prain, D., Gilbert White as a botanist, 1923 (see J. Bot. 61: 271. 1923). - Prance, C.A., The book collector 17(3): 300-321. 1968 (an uncollected author; collation of numerous editions). - Rye, A., Gilbert White and his Selborne, London 1970. 272 p. - Scott, W.S., White of Selborne, London 1950. - Sherborn, C.D., Bibliography, *in* G. White, Nat. Hist. Selborne ed. R. Bowdler Sharpe, London 1900, vol. 2. - Stresemann, E., Ornithology from Aristotle to the present 296-297. 1975. - Thomson, K.S., Amer. Scientist 72(6): 614-616. 1984 ("The breath of life in written words"). - Wolley-Dod, A.H., Fl. Sussex xxxviii-xxxix. 1937 (on Garden Calendar 1785). ### Publications ##### n.17.467. The natural history and antiquities of Selborne **Title** *The natural history and antiquities of Selborne*, in the county of Southampton: with engravings and an appendix... London (printed by T. Bensley...) 1789. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Nat. hist. Selborne*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: Jan 1789 (Gent. Mag.), p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-v, \[1\]-468, \[469-481\], *pl*. *1-9. Copies*: Harvard (Houghton Libr.), HU, KU, LC. – There are no. p. 441-442; 292 misnumbered 262. *Further editions*: see E.G. Martin (1934) and further literature mentioned above in biofile. These references also provide ample information on the *Garden Kalendar*. – A relatively recent, annotated edition, with an introduction, index and glossary by James Fisher and wood engravings by Claire Oldham came out in The Cresset Press, London 1947, repr. 1960. – A widely distributed edition was that in Penguin Books, March 1941, edited, with preface and notes by James Fisher. – A first (abbreviated) German edition came out in 1792: *White's Beyträge zur Naturgeschichte von England*, Berlin 1792. Oct, viii, 168 p. *Garden Kalendar 1751-1771*, reproduced in facsimile from the manuscript in the British Library, Introduction and notes by John Clegg, The Scolar Press 1975.