List of Illustrations Preface On the Drawings Quoting Thoreau Abbreviations Frequently Used Sources Part I. Introduction: ?A pencil is one of the best eyes? I. On Drawing: ?rude outline drawings? II. The Journal: ?My journal should be a record of my love? III. The Art and Science of Illustration: ?from year to year we look at Nature with new eyes? Part II. The Drawings 1. November 26, 1850: ?Their spear very serviceable? / Penobscot Artifacts 2. May 3, 1852: ?Moon in the south? / Moonlit Landscape 3.

July 8, 1852: ?Remarkable moth? / Luna Moth 4. December 2, 1852: ?We saw a mink a slender black? / Mink 5. May 15, 1853: ?What are those large conical-shaped fungi? / Fungi 6. November 23, 1853: ?A harrow of geese? / Geese Overhead 7. August 16, 1854: ?The distinct shadow of our shadows? / Two Men in a Boat 8. August 19, 1854: ?The inner scales of a tortoise? / A Tortoise's Scute 9. August 23, 1854: ?The middle of G's swamp?; February 3, 1860: ?40 paces to an inch? / Swamped 10. February 10, 1856: ?His tracks when running? / Fox Tracks 11.

September 1856: ?Zig-zag thus? / A panther's tooth 12. April 28, 1858: ?I see the fish-hawk again? / Osprey 13. September 29, 1858: ?The form of the leaf too is peculiar? / Nightshade 14. November 11, 1858: ?The tail-coverts of the young hen hawk? and ?The scarlet oak leaf!? / The Feather and the Leaf 15. November 26, 1858: ?Have young breams transverse bars?? / Piscine Dabblings 16. March 13, 1859: ?I go to get one more sight of the old house? / Hunt House 17. July 9, 1859: ?A phalanx of bullrushes? / The Meanders of the Sudbury 18. February 8, 1860: ?The softened ice?I admire the markings in it? / Ice Formations: Toward a Taxonomy 19.

May 30, 1860: ?A little shed, under which I stood dry? / A Self-Portrait 20. November 17, 1860: ?They lotted it off in this wise? / The Heywood Lot Part III. Coda IV. Thoreau's Rooster Notes Index.