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Excerpt from Nature's Diary
I know very well that l have omitted many birds and flowers that will be looked for by some per sons, and I can only try to disarm criticism by apologizing in advance and by saying, once for all, that Nature's Diary is not in any sense a complete record of her doings. For indispensable assistance in arranging the floral calendar, my thanks are due to the well known botanists Walter Deane, Esq, Frederick Le Roy Sargent, Esq, and Henry A. Purdie, Esq. And I must also express my gratitude to William Brewster, Esq, and Henry M. Spelman, Esq, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Professor Clarence Moores Weed of Durham, New Hampshire, Mr. And Mrs. White of North Conway, New Hampshire, and Robert Briggs Worthington, Esq, of Dedham, Massachusetts, for the use of the photographs from which the illustrations were made. It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to suggest that the blank space on the right-hand pages may very appropriately be used for a perennial register of the progress of the seasons. The preponderance of Thoreau in this little vol ume is due to the simple fact that his books really contain more quotable paragraphs than all the others together, and this is largely owing to his wonderfully picturesque and epigrammatic style. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.