Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1912 — Date Worth Remembering. [ARTICLE]

Date Worth Remembering.

Naturalists the world over should regard July 18 as an anniversary worthy of commemoration, as it was on July 18, 1720, that Gilbert White was born. The “Natural History of Selborne," which did not appear until toward the end of his life —it was published in 1789, and he died four years later—is one of the few scientific books that have survived as a classic for well .over a century, and Is today still read for. Its library value as much as for Its interest to the naturalist. Like the “Compleat Angler” and Boswell’s “Johnson,” it Is work that has no exact parallel In the literature of other countries.—London Globe.