Other highlights will include writing by Charles Darwin, Virginia Woolf, W. H. Auden and Sir Isaac Newton, who touch on the subject of White's work. The exhibition also will feature photographs, maps and an eclectic mix of rare, published works relating to natural history. White was born in Selborne in 1720 and died there in 1793. He was ordained in the Church of England and worked as a curate in Hampshire, a county to the southeast of London. Over the years, his journal entries became more frequent and involved.
Roads perfectly dry.
Indeed, these and later journal entries show that White had the exposed nerve of a poet. He is highly sensitive to the aesthetics of his surroundings, and his prose edges toward detailed and lyrical descriptions. It freezes under people's beds. My Provisions are kept in the Cellar. The passage deals with an observation White made of the mating habits of swifts.