Wea. [Weather] Sun. [Sunday] June 24, 1900 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear & very warm.
  Spent most of day in Museum
writing. Dined at the Thayers.
Called on the Harry Spelmans
in the evening.
Wea. [Weather] Monday [June] 25, [1900] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Spent most of day in Boston.
Meeting of Mus. [Museum] Com. [Committee] but
only Dr. Folsom & I attended it. 
He proposes that the Com. [Committee] pledge
themselves individually for 400. each
for the remainder ($2400) of sum
necessary to buy Bangs Coll. [Collection]
Dined with Estabrook at Exchange
Club.
Wea. [Weather] TUES. [Tuesday] June 26, 1900 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Brilliantly clear with cool S.W [south west] breeze. 
  With Walter and George Deane & O.A. Lothrop
started at 8 A.M. for Sherman's Pond
to see nest of Myiarchus found by 
Lothrop about 2 weeks ago. Went by
electric cars via Watertown & Waltham
& returned via Lexington. Nest had
5 beautiful eggs. Photographed it &
took set, nest & stump. Pond but
little changed but woods cleared of 
underbrush.
Wea. [Weather] Wednesday [June] 27, [1900] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear & hot with strong S.W. [south west] wind.
  With Gilbert & Mills (the mason)
I took the 8.34 A.M. train for
Concord. Spent the forenoon on
the Bedford Shore selecting a place
for a boat house which Mills 
is to build for me.
  After dinner Mills & Pat joined
me at cabin & began excavating for a
cistern. I took a walk to Pine Ridge
where I found deer tracks of a buck
apparently. Pat & Bensen have both seen it
the first week.