Bethel.
Wea. [Weather] Tues. [Tuesday] Jan. 15, 1901 [January 15, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
14 [degrees]
30 [degrees]
  Snowstorm beginning at 8 A.M. & [and]
continuing into following night. The snow
was firm & [and] light & [and] it came thinly only about 3
inches having fallen by dark. As usual there was
almost no wind - just a breath from N.E. [Northeast].
The trees were powdered all over afresh.
  I chafed a cord in my ankle with a tight strap
on the snow shoe yesterday & [and] was so lame to-day
that I had to keep quiet. Wrote most of the time
finishing a short article for the Auk & [and] getting off
a lot of letters. In the afternoon Dr, Gehring
went to our trap & [and] found in it a fine northern
Hare which he brought home in the trap. It
did not seem much frightened when we let it out
onto [?] a larger box. It is [delete]largely[/delete] white all over even
on the head.
Wea. [Weather] Wednesday 16 [January 16, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
26 [degrees]
34 [degrees]
  Continued snow-storm turning to icy
rain in P.M. & [and] adding but little to the total
depth of the snow on the ground which is 
probably now about 2½ feet. Much
of the snow fell from the trees this P.M.
  Spent most of the day in the house. Worked 
on Cambridge Bird in A.M., in P.M. & [and]
evening on a "Description of a new Bird,
by Brewster & [and] Bangs. Also wrote a
lot of letters.
  In P.M. walked to 2nd Brook with Dr. G [Gehring]
Saw 2 Canada Nuthatches (eating suet) and
a party of 5 Chickadees (at our beef bone)
Bethel.
Wea. [Weather] Thur. [Thursday] Jan. 17, 1901 [January 17, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
34 [degrees]
38 [degrees]
  Sunny most of A.M. but with gathering
clouds which darkened everything in P.M.
The high temperature settled the snow rapidly.
It was wet & [and] soggy when I went to the
Glen Wood on snow shoes in later P.M.
  The woods seemed gloomy & [and] deserted. Most of the
snow has fallen from the trees in the openings but
there are many pretty effects remaining in sheltered
places. The thaws had obliterated all tracks.
Saw 4 chickadees at the beef bone.
Wrote all A.M. Photographed Miss Mueller in her
party dress in the parlor in P.M.
Wea. [Weather] Friday 18 [January 18, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
26 [degrees] 7 A.M.
-4 [degrees] 9 P.M.
  Clear with temperatures falling all day 
& [and] a gale of wind from the N.W. [Northwest]
  Spent A.M. in house working on the 
Cambridge list (10 - 12 A.M.) & [and] printing
photographs.
  In P.M. went over the Glen Woods trail on
snow shoes. The crust bore my weight
in the woods almost everywhere but it broke
at every step in the open. The snow had been
exquisitely sculptured by the wind in the fields
S. [South] of the house. Heard a Creeper, a Kinglet & Chickadees
also one Blue Jay.
  Bad wreck on Grand Trunk near Locke's Mills
this morning. 5 were killed & [and] 4 engines wrecked.