An exception is the 1789 publication Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White ( 1720 – 1793 ), considered by some to be one of the earliest texts on ecology.

* 1720 – Gilbert White, English naturalist and ornithologist ( d. 1793 )

Some appear only once or twice in a ballad: Will Stutely in Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly and Robin Hood and Little John ; David of Doncaster in Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow ; Gilbert with the White Hand in A Gest of Robyn Hode ; and Arthur a Bland in Robin Hood and the Tanner.

* July 18 – Gilbert White, English naturalist and cleric ( d. 1793 )

* June 26 – Gilbert White, English ornithologist ( b. 1720 )

Gilbert later worked for a time with the firm of McKim, Mead, and White before starting a practice in St. Paul with James Knox Taylor.

Historically, Pliny the Elder believed swallows hibernated, and ornithologist Gilbert White pointed to anecdotal evidence in The Natural History of Selborne that indicated as much.

), C. Hodgson Fowler ( 1856 – 60 ), Thomas Gardner ( 1856 – 61 ), Thomas Graham Jackson ( 1858 – 61 ), John T. Micklethwaite ( 1862 – 69 ), Benjamin Mountfort ( 1841 – 46 ), John Norton ( 1870 – 78 ), George Gilbert Scott, Jr. ( 1856 – 63 ), John Oldrid Scott ( 1858 – 78 ), J. J. Stevenson ( 1858 – 60 ), George Henry Stokes ( 1843 – 47 ), George Edmund Street ( 1844 – 49 ), William White ( 1845 – 47 ).

The staircases of the interior façade are decorated with cartouches similar to those found in First Quad, and likewise bear the arms of important figures in the College's history ; ( 13 ) Sir Walter Raleigh who was an undergraduate from 1572 to 1574, ( 14 ) John Keble who was a Fellow between 1811 and 1835 ), ( archway ) Edward Hawkins who was Provost from 1828 until 1882 and ( 15 ) Gilbert White who was an undergraduate from 1739 until 1743 and a Fellow from 1744 until 1793.

* Gilbert White ( painter ) ( 1940 ), Daniel Boone mural

His correspondence with Gilbert White formed part of the basis for White's book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.

The early interest in observing birds for their aesthetic rather than utilitarian ( mainly food ) value is traced to the late-18th century in the works of Gilbert White, Thomas Bewick, George Montagu and John Clare.

It was named after the English naturalist Gilbert White.

Gilbert White, in his The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne ( 1789, based on decades of observations ).

According to Gilbert White, a diarist writing around 1800 in the Hampshire village of Selborne, the plants came out on February 21, but it is more commonly reported to flower from March until May, and is sometimes called the " spring messenger " as a consequence.

Names on the letter-head include Paul Robeson, Fats Waller, Walter White ( President of the NAACP ), the actress Mercedes Gilbert and Bessye Bearden, the mother of artist Romare Bearden.

He also recounts information passed to him by acquaintances and local gentry, and that obtained in natural history works of his time, including those by Thomas Pennant and Gilbert White, as well as the translation of Buffon's Histoire naturelle.

* Gilbert White becomes curate of Selborne, Hampshire.

The British naturalist Gilbert White was one of the first people to separate the similar-looking Common Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler and Wood Warbler by their songs, as detailed in 1789 in The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, but the Common Chiffchaff was first formally described as Sylvia collybita by French ornithologist Louis Vieillot in 1817 in his Nouveau Dictionnaire d ' Histoire Naturelle.

Gilbert had already been appointed as the Avonlea schoolteacher for the following term, but as an act of kindness, he moves to White Sands School and gives the Avonlea position to Anne instead.

* Gilbert F. White – geographer

The correspondence he received from Gilbert White was the basis for White's book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.

Gilbert Fitz-John, ancestor of the White Knight.

Hales spent his summers there and became a friend of Gilbert White whose family lived there.

Turner's work reflected the violent times that he lived in and stands in contrast to later works such as Gilbert White's The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne that were written in a tranquil era.

The Oxford English Dictionary dates the English common name " barn swallow " to 1851, though an earlier instance of the collocation in an English-language context is in Gilbert White's popular book The Natural History of Selborne, originally published in 1789:

This includes the work of Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton, and includes Mr. Natural ; Keep on Truckin '; Fritz the Cat ; Fat Freddy's Cat ; Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers ; the album cover art for Cheap Thrills ; and contributions to International Times, The Village Voice, and Oz magazine.

* The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors

* 1789 – Publication of Gilbert White's Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne

* Gilbert White publishes The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton ( dated 1789 ), a pioneering observational study of English ecology.

This followed with major roles in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Natural Born Killers, The Evening Star, Kalifornia, and From Dusk Till Dawn.

Jardine's other publications included an edition of Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne which re-established White's reputation, Illustrations of Ornithology ( 1825 – 43 ), and an affordable edition of Alexander Wilson's Birds of America.

Among the prominent writers and naturalists he associated with was James Rennie, whom he assisted in the editing of Gilbert White's The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in 1833.

Gilbert White in The Natural History of Selborne ( 1789 ), in a note appended to his Letter VI, to Thomas Pennant, apropos of local people's success in searching for bog oak for house construction, by discovering these trees " by the hoar frost, which lay longer over the space where they were concealed, than on the surrounding morass.

Selborne is famous for its association with the 18th-century naturalist, Gilbert White ( 1720 – 1793 ), who wrote The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.

In his book The Natural History of Selborne, Gilbert White ( 1720 – 1793 ) quotes the words of John Philips who wrote:

Gilbert Gerard, was educated at Aberdeen, where he became Professor, first of Natural Philosophy at Marischal College in 1750, and afterwards between 1760 – 1771 of Divinity, taking up the post of Professor of Divinity at King's College in 1771.

* Compendious View of the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion the joint work by Alexander Gerard and his son Gilbert Gerard, published 1828.

He has received many prizes and medals including: the FEBS Anniversary Prize ; Novo Biotechnology Award ; Charmian Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry ; Max Tishler Lecture and Prize Harvard University ; Datta Lecture and Medal FEBS ; Jubilee Lecture and the Harden Medal of the Biochemical Society ; Feldberg Foundation Prize, Distinguished Service Award, Miami Nature Biotechnology Winter Symposium ; Christian B. Anfinsen Award of the Protein Society ; Natural Products Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Stein and Moore Award of the Protein Society ; Bader Award of the American Chemical Society ; Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang Prize and Medal ; Johannes Martin Bijvoet Medal Utrecht University ; and the Gilbert N. Lewis Medal University of California, Berkeley.

Business card showing the names of Gates, Allen, and Gilbert from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.

Gilbert White gave a detailed description of rushlight making in The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, Letter XXVI ( 1789 ).

The writer and naturalist Charles Kingsley, following the tradition laid down by Gilbert White in The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne ( 1789 ), invoked the proverb in favour of knowing completely one small area.