Found twenty or thirty of the little brown nuts of the skunk-cabbage deposited on a shelf of the turf under an apple tree by E. [Ebenezer] Hubbard’s close, as I have done before . . .

  P. M. to Second Division Brook . . . Was that Rana fontinalis or pipiens in the pool by E. Wood’s railroad crossing? The first large frog I have seen. C. [William Ellery Channing] says a wasp lit on him. A wood tortoise by river above Derby’s Bridge . . . Heard the hooting owl in Ministerial Swamp . . . Cheney’s elm blossomed to-day . . . Observed the first female willow just coming out, apparently Salix eriocephala, just beyond woods by Abel Hosmer’s field by railroad.