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Gilbert White 1720-93, English naturalist. He served as curate at Selborne and nearby parishes from 1751. He recorded his detailed observations of nature in letters to other naturalists, and on these he based The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789), a classic in scientific writing noted for its highly literary style.

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White, Gilbert (1720–93) English naturalist. White held curacies at Selborne in Hampshire, devoting himself to the study of natural history around his parish. His famous work The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789) consists of letters to his fellow naturalists.

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White, Gilbert (1720–93), spent most of his life as curate of Selborne. He began in 1751 to keep a ‘Garden Kalendar’ and later a ‘Naturalist's Journal’. He made the acquaintance of two distinguished naturalists, Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington, with whom he carried on a correspondence from 1767 which formed the basis of his classic Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (pub. Dec. 1788, title page 1789), a work which displays his affectionate and detailed observations of wild life and nature, and his love of the picturesque in landscape.

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