Cambridge.
Wea. [Weather] Wed. [Wednesday] March 20, 1901 Ther. [Thermometer]
34 [degrees]
38 [degrees]
  Cloudy with raw N.E. [Northeast] wind & [and] a 
fine drizzle of rain.
  First snow drops in bloom front mus [museum].
Spent A.M. in museum writing on Cambridge
List. At 2 P.M.. drove to Museum Comp. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology]
where I saw Woodworth, Faxon and
Bangs. The last has put the collection
of mammals in fine order.
  Went into Boston at 4 P.M. Called at
Mrs. Cabots thinking Audubon Directors met there
to-day but meeting was last Wednesday.
Dined at Athletic Club and met C. [Caroline] at
Boston Society at 7.45 to hear Emmerton talk on
spiders. 
Wea. [Weather] Thursday 21 [March 21, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
52 [degrees] 8.A.M.
58 [degrees]
  Cloudy with heavy rain 10 A.M. to
8 P.M.. Air very mild & soft.
  Robin in nearly full song in the lindens
early this morning.
  After breakfast C, [Caroline] & [and] I walked to Elmwood
& [and] back along the river. Bought some plants
at [?Mouthman's] greenhouse. Saw only
a few Crows.
  In P.M. R. Heber Howe and Mr. Cash
of Providence called. The latter bought
a Marsh Heath-hen which he exchanged
with me for a [?] [?].
Clark also bought out a lot of
Black Duck skins.
Cambridge (Boston)
Wea. [Weather] Fri. [Friday] March 22, 1901  Ther. [Thermometer]
38 [degrees]
50 [degrees]
  Brilliantly clear with light W [West] wind.
  First crocuses (5 or 6) bloomed this morning.
  At sunrise a robin was in full song in our
lindens & [and] later a Flicker was shouting there.
After breakfast C. [Caroline] & [and] I walked to Harvard Square.
Saw five Grackles, a Song Sparrow in Longfellow
Park & [and] a Bluebird flying over Charles River
Spent A.M. writing. To Boston in P.M. to go
over rewriting of our Trust Estates with my
cousin & Arthur Estabrook.
Purdie took tea & [and] spent the evening with me.
Wea. [Weather] Saturday 23 [March 23, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
30 [degrees]
  Brilliantly clear with almost no
wind.
  Took a drive with C. [Caroline] after breakfast. On
the edge of Fish Pond Barn near Gray's woods
found 12 Bluebirds, several Fox, Tree & [and] Song
Sparrows, a Downy, a Flicker, Crows & [and] about
a dozen Robins. All the Sparrows were singing
loudly & well, Fresh Pond still frozen & [and] no
water birds there. Near Hithinger's farm saw
4 more Bluebirds together most of them walking.
Also dozens of Robins. Song Sparrows everywhere.
a Carolina Nuthatch & a Meadow Lark
singing at Paryson Park. Wrote most of day.
Lizzy returned from Springfield this A.M.