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hillside above it.  After dinner we collected Arbutus while
proceeding slowly back to the station.  The day was the most
blustery one we have had this season.  The weather bureau had
predicted rain, nevertheless the sun shone almost continuously.
Everything is backward, and one might almost think it February.
None of the fruit trees are as yet in bloom.

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April 17, 1904.  A trip with Walter & Percy to Brooklyn.  I
had hoped to get a few frogs' eggs, but found them all too 
far developed, having already reached the tadpole stage.  Skunk
Cabbage is now in all its glory, the marshy lowlands are
green with it.  To-day, it is very much warmer than yesterday
and we have again an ideal spring day.  The sun is shining 
beautifully and the temperature seems to be just right.  We walked
around the front of the hill, returning home by noon.  Just as were leaving
the woods, I frightened a little snake that was sunning itself.
Examining the ground near by more closely, I found four more
all within a few inches of each other.

April 19, 1904.  To the ravine.  I went by way of the Pump House.
Stopped at Owl Spring and then at Camp run.  From the ravine
I went to O. G.  Mr. N. has built a temporary bridge across the river
        