Concord.
  Wea. [Weather] Sun. [Sunday] July 26, 1903 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Partly cloudy; sultry; heavy thunder
shower in P.M.
  Purdie, Gilbert & I went to Concord
by 9.A.M. Fitchburg R.R. [Rail Road] train.
Hansen met us at station &
drove us to farm. After dinner
Purdie & I strolled to the extension
pine woods behind Lawrence's to look
for a curious specimen of Aspidium
spinulosum we saw there last year. Found
it easily. I worked about farm after
the shower.
[margin] First Cicada (Concord village) [/margin]
  Wea. [Weather] Monday 27 [July 27, 1903] Ther. [Thermometer]
70 [degrees] max. [maximum]
  Brilliantly clear & very cool with
violent N.W. [northwest] wind.
  Spent A.M. working with Forbush &
Pat. First thinned the crowded young 
elms bordering lane in front of farm
cutting out all but three of them. Next
planted a quantity of Lupine seed.
After dinner worked for an hour on
flower garden. Took 4.20 P.M. train
to Cambridge. Purdie went to Boston.
Mrs. Scudder, her daughter Sylvia &
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] took tea with me on back piazza. 
Wea. [Weather] Tues. [Tuesday] July 28, 1903 Ther. [Thermometer] 
  [delete] A.M. sunny; P.M. cloudy with
strong S. [south] wind & light showers. Very sultry
  Went into Boston at 11 A.M. Lunched 
with Arthur Estabrook at Exchange Club [/delete]
  Clear & cool with light W. [west] wind.
  Spent day in Museum writing letters
& picking out a lot of birds to send to
Ridgeway. Took walk to Elmwood with
C. [Caroline] at 5 P.M. To Oakley Club at
6 P.M. to dine & spend the
evening with Geo. V. Leverett.
[margin] First Acanthus nivaeus in the Horsfords this evening. [/margin]
Wea. [Weather] Wednesday 29 [July 29, 1903] Ther. [Thermometer]
  A.M. sunny. P.M. cloudy
with strong S.W. [southwest] wind & light showers.
Sultry.
  To Boston at 11 A.M. Lunched
with Arther Estabrook at the
Exchange Club. Spent an hour
at office & bought 10 shs [shares] Bos. &
Lowell R.R. [Boston and Lowell Rail Road] at 2.30. Called at
Spelman's office & executed deed
of schoolhouse to Howe.
  Came out to Mus. Comp. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology]
at 3 P.M. Picked out birds for Ridgeway.
Saw Mr. Agassiz, Faxon, Woodworth
& Henshaw.