Wea. [Weather] Sat. [Saturday] Dec. 21, 1901 [December 21, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
10 [degrees]
24 [degrees]
  Clear, calm, dry, sharp air.
Spent most of day in Museum
working on Lower Cala. Rep. [Lower California Report].
Walked to Elmwood just after 
lunch. The Part time men were
cutting down a number of dead
or dying trees there - mostly pines
which are dying fast. Heard a
Chickadee in the pines - the only
bird noted to-day.
  Miss Howard & Miss [?] lunched with
me. C. [Caroline] had a headache & kept her room.
Wea. [Weather] Sunday 22 [December 22, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
4 [degrees]
22 [degrees]
  Cloudless, calm, cold.
  Corvus am. [Corvus americana] One in our lindens, 3 or 4
up Brattle St.
  Parus atricap. [Parus atricapillus]. Heard on Reservoir St.
  C. [Caroline] & I walked up Highland St. & to
Elmwood at 10 A.M.
  Walter & Margie Deane dined with us.
I spent most of day in Museum
writing letters.
Wea. [Weather] Mon. [Monday] Dec. 23, 1901 [December 23, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
20 [degrees]
32 [degrees]
  Cloudy - calm - warmer
  Spent most of day in museum
revising the Lower Cala. [Lower California] paper.
  C. [Caroline] & I took a short walk just after
lunch seeing a Brown Creeper in
the big cottonwood on Sparks St.
The dust of snow which fell on the
17th & 19th still whitens the ground
but there is no sleighing.
Wea. [Weather] Tuesday, 24 [December 24, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
34 [degrees]
40 [degrees]
  Cloudy - calm - mild.
  Spent most of day in Museum
working on my Lower Cala. Rep. [Lower California Report]
& getting off Christmas presents.
In late P.M. took car to Harvard Sq. [Harvard Square]
where I had my hair cut. Walked
back. My cough very troublesome
all day.