Wea. [Weather] Tues. [Tuesday] Feb. 4, 1902 [February 4, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
14 [degrees]
28 [degrees]
  A.M. clear & [and] calm. P.M. cloudy
with a light dust of snow at evening.
  F.M. Chapman appeared just
before noon to stay until Thursday.
He lectures to night at the Dawson 
Ins. [Dawson Institute] course, to-morrow night at 
Newton. We spent the whole
afternoon talking. I have a
troublesome attack of pink eye now.
  
  Wea. [Weather] Wednesday 5 [February 5, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
12 [degrees]
25 [degrees]
  Clear with light N.W. [northwest] wind.
  Spent A.M. working on  Introduction
to Lower Cala. [Lower California] paper. Just after
lunch Chapman & [and] I walked to
Elmwood. Saw a Brown Creeper
& [and] a flock of 15 Cedar Birds, the
latter in Mr. Richardson's grounds
where they were eating nut-ash berries.
Chapman & [and] I talked the rest of the
afternoon. He lectured at Newton in
the evening.

  Wea. [Weather] Thur. [Thursday] Feb. 6, 1902 [February 6, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
12 [degrees]
26 [degrees]
  Clear with light W. [west] wind.
  No birds except 1 Chickadee in Garden.
  Chapman & [and] I spent most of A.M.
looking at birds & [and] discussing some of
the forms I am about to describe.
He departed just after lunch & [and] I
devoted the afternoon to Lower Cala. Rep. [Lower California Report].
May Cunningham & [and] Emmie Kettell lunched
with us.

  Wea. [Weather] Friday 7 [February 7, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
14 [degrees]
34 [degrees]
  Clear with almost no wind. 
  Worked all the morning on the
Lower Cala. [Lower California] paper. Outram Bangs
& [and] J. L. Brewster lunched with me.
After lunch Bangs & [and] I began 
looking at birds, keeping it up 
until the light failed. I gave 
him about a dozen of Frazar's [Marston Abbott Frazar]
Lower Cala. [Lower California] skins.