When compiling his seminal work, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789), Gilbert White relied on a number of natural history books in order to manage and accumulate information. One of White's most important books was his copy of John Ray's Synopsis Methodica Avium et Piscium, a work frequently mentioned in Selborne. White's annotated copy of this work, now in the Whipple Library, Cambridge, provides new insight into his working practices and methods of observing and recording the natural world. White's copy of Ray's Synopsis was essential for assembling information for the letters which formed one of the most successful and influential works of eighteenth-century natural history in Britain.
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