Wea. [Weather] Sun. [Sunday] Jan. 19, 1902 [January 19, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
30 [degrees]
38 [degrees]
  Clear with light W. [west] winds.
  Crows cawing in our lindens at sunrise. 
  Spent A.M. writing letters. Will & [and] Abie
Stone came to dinner. After it we went
to Museum and looked over photographs.
C. [Caroline] kept her room all day having a
bad cold. We read to each other in
the evening.

  Wea. [Weather] Monday 20 [January 20, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
9 [degrees]
28 [degrees]
  Brilliantly clear with little wind.
  Wrote all A.M.
  At 2 P.M. drove down to Batchelder's.
Walked thence to Museum where I saw
Faxon, Henshaw, Bangs & [and] [?].
Returned.

Wea. [Weather] Tues. [Tuesday] Jan. 21, 1902 [January 21, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer] 
  Cloudy, calm, mild
  Parus atricapillius 2 [in a flock] eating suet at Museum.
  Colaptes auratus 1 in the Garden
  Dryobates pubescens 1 eating suet at Museum.
  Spent most of day in Museum writing.
At 4 P.M. called Col. T. W. Higginson
by appointment to question him about Cambridge 
in the days of his youth. Spent over an hour
talking with him in his parlor. He was very
kind, very genial & [and] most interesting but discursive.
  
  Wea. Wednesday 22 [January 22, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
36 [degrees]
46 [degrees]
  Cloudy with a fine, drizzling rain.
  Wrote for an hour in the morning and
then went to Boston. Spent about
half an hour at our office & [and] then dined
with Leander at Fellner's. Afterwards
had my hair cut & [and] looked at a lot of old
furniture on Boylston St. Next consulted
Dr. Arthur H. Nichols about a persistent sore
on my wrist. Then called at Frazer's & (and) saw
what I think is a young male Ruff taken at
Nantucket last July by D [?] of
Beacon St. Got home at 4.30 P.M.
Mr. Ritchie of Doon at museum when I
arrived. Had a moose meat dinner this evening.
[margin]Melvin, Will Stone, Mr. James Howard
& [and] Walter Deane.[/margin]