  Wea. [Weather] Thur. [Thursday] March 20, 1902 Ther. [Thermometer]
28 [degrees]
44 [degrees]
  Cloudy with E. [east] wind
and steady but light rain.
  Spent the entire day in the
museum working on the Lower Cala. [Lower California]
book. I have been reexamining
specimens of late & changing or
revising the text in many places.
The "We Dine" Club met at
Batchelder's this evening. Everyone 
there but Chadbourne. Walter & I
walked home.

  Wea. [Weather] Friday 21 [March 21, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
38 [degrees]
50 [degrees] (about)
  A.M. cloudy; P.M. clear.
  A Robin singing divinely in the
lindens this morning. Flicker shouting.
  Spent A.M. writing. Took 2.05 P.M.
train to Concord. Gilbert met me
at station. We rowed across landing
at Ball's Hill & walking thence to
the farm. Strolled through orchard &
Barrett run at evening. Heard a Woodcock [Woodcock's]
wings over the house. One Pickering's Hyla.
Bensen saw a Deer in the Lane at
the schoolhouse this morning. I saw its tracks.

   Concord.
   Wea. [Weather] Sat. [Saturday] March 22, 1902 Ther. [Thermometer]
not taken
max [maximum] about 70 [degrees]
  Clear, wind N. [north] A.M. cool; P.M.
oppressively warm.
  Spent most of A.M. at new farm
buildings overseeing the carpenters &
my own men who were "clearing up".
In P.M. Hansen & Howard cut down
a lot of birches in the cedar pasture.
This work kept me busy until near
sunset when I walked to Birch Field.
Got back in time to hear a Woodcock
sing in the pasture W. [west] of the wood.

  Wea. [Weather] Sunday 23 [March 23, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
not taken
max [maximum] about 60 [degrees]
  Brilliantly clear with light N. [north] wind
  Walked up the road to the Swift farm
after breakfast. Country alive with
birds. I have never heard Bluebirds sing so before.
Expected Will Stone to dinner but he
did not appear.
  In P.M. Gilbert & I worked in the
Pulpit Rock woods "swamping" out a path.
Heard a Great Horned Owl towards Lawrence's
pines before sunset & the Woodcock 
near the house after it.
  J.W. Long & Henry -? called in A.M.