Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:
Looking at the birds at the Natural History Rooms, I find that I have not seen the crow blackbird at all yet this season . . .
Sat on end of Long Wharf . . .
Harris [Thaddeus William Harris] showed me a list of plants in Hovey’s Magazine (I think for ’42 or ’43) not in Bigelow’s Botany,—seventeen or eighteen of them, among the rest a pine I have not seen, etc., etc,. q.v . . .
Planted melons.
Cambridge, Mass. Thoreau checks out A narrative of the mission of the United Brethren among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians by John Heckewelder, Ancient sea-margins, as memorials of changes in the relative level of sea and land by Robert Chambers, and A narrative of the captivity and adventures of John Tanner by John Tanner from Harvard College Library (Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 290).
Boston, Mass. Thoreau checks out The North American Sylva by François André Michaux and Thomas Nuttall, volumes 1 & 2, and A natural system of botany by John Lindley from the Boston Society of Natural History Library (Emerson Society Quarterly, no. 24 (March 1952):26).
