NO.120
T H E T R U S T Y S E RVA N T
The man who ate an elephant’s trunk
and other Wykehamical naturalists
Ian Alexander (G, 67-72) writes:
Waterfowl at Fallodon, by Edward Grey, 1926
Britain was the first country to
undergo an Industrial Revolution. New
arrivals in the smoky cities longed to
escape. Their hunger for nature made two
extremely dissimilar books into bestsellers:
Gilbert White’s perfect-place-in-thecountry The Natural History of Selbor