Things
Easily forgotten.
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Cambridge.
Wea. [Weather] Mon. Jan. 1, 1900. Ther. [Thermometer]
17 [degrees] - 8 A.M.
20 [degrees] - 1 P.M.
First snow storm of the winter
beginning about daybreak & lasting until
4 P.M. ten inches of fine, dry snow falling.
  Spent the whole day in Museum working
on some notes made last summer
at Peterboro recasting & rewriting them.
Purdie went to Boston in A.M.
No callers to-day. A single Chickadee
which visited the suet in the elm was
the only bird noted[.]
Wea. [Weather] Tuesday [Jan] 2 Ther. [Thermometer]
14 [degrees] - 8 A.M.
26 [degrees] - 1 P.M.
  Cloudless with little wind. A
fine winter day.
  Dryobates pubescens. [male] eating suet in elm 8 A.M.
  Spent the day in Museum working
on the notes made at Peterboro last summer.
  While Purdie & I were at lunch we saw
four Gray Squirrels in a maple outside.
Two of them struggled long & stubbornly
for a large piece of bread.
  No callers to-day.