Samuel Cabot writes to Thoreau:
On the 27th of December, 1850, Mr. Cabot wrote to say that the Boston Society of Natural History, of which he was secretary, had elected Thoreau a corresponding member, “with all the honores, privilegia, etc., ad gradum tuum pertinentia, without the formality of paying any entrance fee, or annual subscription. Your duties in return are to advance the interests of the Society by communications or otherwise, as shall seem good.”
(Familiar Letters of Thoreau, 226-227)
Cambridge, Mass. Thoreau checks out Voyages de la Nouvelle France occidentale, dicte Canada… depuis l’an 1603; jusques en l’an 1629 by Samuel de Champlain from Harvard College Library (Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 289; Thoreau’s Reading).
