the Thoreau Log.
19 January 1854.

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Went to Cambridge to court . . . Dr. Harris [Thaddeus William Harris] says that my cocoons found in Lincoln in December are of the Attacus cecropia, the largest of our emperor moths . . .
(Journal, 6:73-74)

Cambridge, Mass. Thoreau checks out Essays on the picturesque, as compared with the sublime and beautiful, volume 1, by Sir Uvedale Price, Researches on America; being an attempt to settle some points relative to the aborigines of America, &c by James Haines McCulloh, and An account of two voyages to New England by John Josselyn from Harvard College Library.

(Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 290)

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal on 22 January:

  Harris told me on the 19th that he had never found the snow-flea (Journal, 6:75).

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