Wea. [Weather] Wed. [Wednesday] Nov. [November] 7, 1900 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear with light S.W. [south west] wind, a
delightful day for this season.
  Drove to Mus[eum] Comp[arative] Zool[ogy] at 10 A.M.
& had a long interview with Woodworth.
Thence to Boston where I dined at
Fillner's, called at 35 Congress St, [Street] 
"tried on" new clothes at Smith's &
[?] & Jones, & attended meeting
Audubon Soc. [Society] Directors at 3.30 P.M.
Wea. [Weather] Thursday [November] 8 [1900] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudy most of the day with thunder
showers in late P.M. & evening. Very warm.
  To Concord with Gilbert by 8.34 train.
Crossed river in little open canoe.
 Saw carpenters who were finishing wood shed
& Pat & John who were clearing up the paths
in Holden woods. Then sailed to Eagle Hill
& walked thence to farm where I found 
Long, Petersen, Henry, Jimmy, Frank & Bensen
at work getting out rocks. Paid off Petersen
& discharged him. Back to Cambridge
on 6 P.M. train. Heavy thunder shower with
hail overtook us at Bedford. 
Wea. [Weather] Fri. [Friday] Nov. [November] 9, 1900 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudy with violent thunder in forenoon
& desultory rain in P.M.
  Spent day in Museum writing & getting
things ready for the A.O.U.[American Ornithologists' Union] meeting next week.
Saw two Orange-crowned Warblers in the
garden & shot one of them with my 22 cal. [caliber]
cane gun in the willow just behind the house.
I tried to shoot the other but it was shy
& finally escaped me. The bird I got was a [male].
I made it into a skin.
Wea. [Weather] Saturday [November] 10 [1900] Ther. [Thermometer]
34 [degrees]
  Brilliantly clear with violent N.W. [north west]
wind.
  Gilbert & I went to Concord by 8.34 A.M. train.
Crossed river to Ball's Hill & walked thence to
the farm where we dined. Found Bensen
Frank & Jimmy at work there, at the
cabin the two carpenters Pat & John. 
  The wood shed finished & locked up.
Took 4.24 P.M. back to Cambridge.
There was ice on the meadow ponds at
Concord.